Ireland: Whiskey tourism could be hit by cancer label bottle law, sector warns

Technically speaking, everything causes cancer if you consume large enough amounts...

Thing is that there is not "safe" amount of alcohol when it comes to cancer risk. This means that someone who has one drink per week has the same probability of developing a cancer than someone who drinks 10 drinks a day.

But let's be clear here, alcohol consumption only slightly increases the risk of cancer, most people who drink alcohol will not develop a cancer because of it.

In the UK, over 66 million people, 11,900 cancer a year MIGHT be cause by alcohol consumption, this gives a probability of 0.0018% per year...

This means that, for an 80 years lifetime (assuming someone consumes alcohol regularly for 60 years), someone has a 1.09% chance of developing a cancer at age 80.

The probability at age 60 falls to 0.72% and to 0.545% at age 50...

This also means that someone who consumes alcohol regularly from age 20 to age 50 has a 99.454% chance of NOT developing an alcohol related cancer...

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/alcohol-and-cancer/does-alcohol-cause-cancer

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