60 seconds on … Alcohol risk labels

Abstract

Pretty much. Since January, health leaders globally have been calling for all alcoholic beverages to carry prominent warning labels to highlight cancer risk. First the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, recommended updating US alcohol labelling to include a cancer risk warning.1 Then in February, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European office joined him, pointing to widely adopted tobacco warning labels and data that 78% of Europeans support having similar warnings for alcohol.2 Alcohol indeed has a causal link with at least seven types of malignancy, …