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In a post on X, Murthy said alcohol contributes to about 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the U.S., a number greater than the 13,500 alcohol-related traffic accidents each ...
Despite having a legal drinking age of 21, binge drinking in the United States remains very prevalent among high school and college students. Using the popular 5/4 definition of "binge drinking", one study found that, in 1999, 44% of American college students (51% male, 40% female) engaged in this practice at least once in the past two weeks. [26]
In 2020-21, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were an average of about 488 deaths per day from excessive alcohol drinking, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease ...
Murthy stated that alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases annually. “I wish we had a magic cutoff we could tell people is safe,” Murthy said in an interview .
Stolle, Sack and Thomasius define binge drinking as episodic excessive drinking. [7] There is currently no worldwide consensus on how many drinks constitute a "binge", but in the United States, the term has been described in academic research to mean consuming five or more standard drinks (male), or four or more drinks (female), [12] over a two-hour period. [13]
An estimated 3.6% of all cancer cases and 3.5% of cancer deaths worldwide are attributable to consumption of alcohol (more specifically, acetaldehyde, a metabolic derivative of ethanol). [8] 740,000 cases of cancer in 2020 or 4.1% of new cancer cases were attributed to alcohol. [3] [2]
New research from the American Cancer Society on Thursday estimates nearly half of adult cancer deaths in the U.S. could be prevented by making lifestyle changes.
"Not drinking has benefits, such as better health, and better sleep." [11] 40.35 g with no more than 5 drinking days per week per the federal government 26.9 g with no more than 5 drinking days per week per the federal government 27 g, CCSUA; 201.75g, federal government 27 g, CCSUA; 134.5g, federal government