The really interesting thing in this piece about how drinking alcohol causes cancer is just how much the scientists and writer don't want it to be true...

#IdontWantToBelieve #Cancer #alcohol

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00729-5

At least 124 people have died drinking bootleg alcohol in Ankara and Istanbul in the past six weeks, and dozens more have been hospitalized. Read more from @CBSNews
https://flip.it/dOU-8m
#Turkey #Alcohol #Poisoning #Drinking #Mideast

It looks like the over-55s have got a drink problem

many, it seems, who's started drinking more alcohol (at home) during lockdown have been unable to scale back & as a result liver disease diagnosis has risen swiftly in that age group; at the very same time that under 35s are adopting a no-drinking lifestyle.

The drinks sector is profiting from a product that causes illness, while to some extent (drink is quite highly taxed) passing the cost onto taxpayers.

#alcohol
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/07/calls-for-uk-government-to-tackle-alcohol-related-deaths-in-older-people

I tried ‘intermittent sobriety’. Here’s what I learned jumping on and off the wagon | Arwa Mahdawi https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/06/intermittent-sobriety-what-i-learned #Health&wellbeing #Lifeandstyle #Alcohol #Culture #Society #Health #USnews

A look at Israel’s award-winning Alexander Brewery’s brock beer https://www.byteseu.com/?p=621317 #alcohol #Beer #business #Europe #Israel

About fucking time! If you think #smoking is a health menace worse than alcohol, let me put it this way... Not JUST from a biological perspective;I'm Alcohol KILLS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ON THE HIGHWAYS EVERY YEAR, ALONE. Usually it's not not the drunk that gets killed either. This is also not counting destroyed families and other sociological, medical causes.

Surgeon general calls for cancer warning on #alcohol

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/surgeon-general-calls-for-cancer-warning-on-alcohol #alcoholism #health #cancer

Is alcohol shortening your life? An online tool built in B.C. will tell you
The new Know Alcohol calculator was developed by researchers at UVic's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and calculates personalized health risks from drinking.
#health #alcohol #research #tool #BC #DryJanuary
https://globalnews.ca/news/10940185/bc-alcohol-heatlh-tool/

Recipe calls for sherry. I don’t have sherry (never have), or any suitable subs, so I nipped to the costcutter thinking a dry white wine would do. They had sherry so I now have sherry…for cooking purposes. I am becoming my mum.

#alcohol

#actuallyAutistic and #alcohol
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RZsL6gnSgao&si=6o5lRbiQ9xPWZsej

Scotland expected to raise minimum #alcohol price by 30% - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/scotland-expected-to-raise-minimum-alcohol-price-by-30 "Health campaigners will welcome new unit rate of 65p, which will push bottle of whisky to at least £18.20" excellent move