I found numbers for how many cancer deaths in the US are attributable to alcohol [0] and it puts it at 18 200 to 21 300 deaths. For worldwide figures see Table

I found numbers for how many cancer deaths in the US are attributable to alcohol [0] and it puts it at 18 200 to 21 300 deaths. For worldwide figures see Table 1 of this study [1] that breaks down alcohol-attributable deaths by category. It lists alcohol-attributable cancer deaths at 487 000 in the year 2004. So it looks like the number isn't misleading, only unclear. Misleading would have been listing the total 2 225 000 alcohol-attributable deaths. [0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673233/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673233/ [1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673609607467 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673609...