US Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200, Independence Avenue Southwest, Ward 6, Washington, District of Columbia, 20201, United StatesOffice of the U.S. Surgeon General
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCENPR'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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