> "Alcohol has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen (carcinogenic to humans) for decades by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It's right up th

> "Alcohol has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen (carcinogenic to humans) for decades by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It's right up there with tobacco and asbestos." Other Group 1 carcinogens [0]: - processed meat - Salted fish, Chinese-style (?) - solar radiation - outdoor air pollution - wood dust - leather dust A big problem with that CBC quote is that there is no way everything in Group 1 has the same (or even approximately the same) risk of causing cancer. How could eating cold cuts from a deli be equivalent to smoking a cigarette or inhaling mustard gas? > The risk of dying from lung cancer before age 85 is 22.1% for a male smoker and 11.9% for a female smoker, in the absence of competing causes of death. The corresponding estimates for lifelong nonsmokers are a 1.1% probability of dying from lung cancer before age 85 for a man of European descent, and a 0.8% probability for a woman.[1] *This* is the kind of smoking gun they should be showing; ~20% increase in the chance of dying from lung cancer for men who smoke. How much does alcohol increase chances of dying from cancer? 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_1 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco#Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco#Canc...