19000 cancer death linked to alkohol means your chances to be killed in road accident in US is x2 higher than to die from that type of cancer.
But if it's twice as hard to mitigate, that implies we should spend some effort on reducing alcohol deaths too.
Vision zero is a common approach which is working in EU.
Or laws could be appended with requirements to install extra technical measures to the cars to prevent driving under influence and speeding.
It is unclear for me why there is no hard speed limit installed into the cars, like 140km/h.
My anecdata is that people who has alcohol addiction are dying earlier, but not from cancer. Main causes of deaths are liver failures and drunk accidents(like freezing to death in winter or DUI).
But my understanding was that it has been difficult to directly link cancer and alcohol consumption causatively and it’s only been recent genetic research that’s opening up just how many cases are actually related.
This study made the number go from 750k to more than 3 million globally, and as research improves I imagine that number will continue to grow.
So, perhaps we shouldn’t so readily discount the link on the basis of its number of cases since we are only starting to have the science we need and the studies based on that science to create effective studies that aren’t based on correlative evidence.
https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/new-genetic-study-confirms-th...