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NPR's[2] story of January 3, 2025 reports that Murthy 'released a new advisory detailing how drinking alcohol increases the risk of developing seven types of cancer'; the HHS[1][3] advisory page itself carries no release date.Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's advisory names alcohol the third-leading preventable cause of cancer in the US, behind about 100,000 cases and 20,000 deaths a year, and asks Congress to add a cancer warning to the label unchanged since 1988.
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