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"The researchers point to several factors as driving the expected increases in cancer rates, such as obesity, tobacco use and alcohol use, as well as environmental factors like air pollution."

It's interesting to see alcohol use lumped in as cancer causing as tobacco use and air pollution. I wonder what kind of cancer risks it introduced?

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It’s a risk factor for colorectal cancer, which is not only the 3rd most prevalent type of cancer, but is increasingly being discovered in younger people. Alcohol has a number of deleterious effects, from microbiome destruction, to the genotoxicity of alcohol’s metabolite acetaldehyde, and finally alcohol changes your behavior to make other cancer causing activities like smoking more likely.

I don't get this. 77% is a big increase. Alcohol and tobacco use can't be increasing enough to drive that change. Obesity and pollution are on the rise, but that much?

Edit: autocorrect correction

The big secret: the number is completely made up, but it will be used as an excuse to take rights away from you.

The people who have the power to limit your freedom don't need to make up numbers in order to do so.

They can't do it without popular support, so they make up the numbers so the gullible people are happy with their rights being taken away.

The sound you hear now is my eyes rolling so hard at the lengths that conspiracy theorists go to sow distrust in institutions without any plausible evidence.

I'm starting to believe in meta-conspiracy where there is conspiracy to propagate conspiracy theories to discredit institutions and trust.

I wish you were wrong, but I know you aren't.

I'm not sure it in interesting to lump alcohol in there. I thought everyone knew it was wikdly unhealthy, just also wildly fun.

Air pollution deserves more attention IMO. I live along the Wasatch from in Utah and have been trying to strategize a move out of state because of air pollution. In sure I won't be surprised if it kills me and my family in the end.

Alcohol consumption is linked to increases in liver cancer

And throat/mouth, I believe. Alcohol is poison, even in small amounts. I still drink it occasionally, not trying to be preachy!

And apparently breast cancer and several others. I also drink regularly but I just finished reading Drink[1] and it goes pretty in depth on the health effects.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Drink-New-Science-Alcohol-Health/dp/B...

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