Just before leaving office, the Surgeon General of the United States, following the lead of officials in Europe has suggested that an additional warning of cancer risk be added to alcohol products.
You can read up on the main points HERE but I have three questions that I would like additional information on…
- is this for ALL alcohol? are grapes better than malt or apples better than toasted oak? are the botanicals in gin OK?
- what is the math on amounts? is 16oz of 5.5% beer better than a cocktail with 45abv spirit?
- what is the research (if any) on people who drink but do not get cancer. we have all heard about the old lady who drank scotch every week for forty years and lived to be 100. what is different about those folks.
This is all bearing in mind that science is ongoing, what seemed obvious now might be much murkier ten years from now.