You've probably seen all of the headlines and the social media posts about the Surgeon General calling for cancer warning labels on alcohol.

In this bonus episode, I wanted to explain what this means, why alcohol causes cancer, why everyone who drinks doesn't just get a bunch of cancer, and what this means for us.

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18 plus Sky Sports content stream via internet full turns apply Welcome back to the sober powered podcast. I'm your host Jill. And today we're talking about cancer.

Social media isn't the best place to get information. So I wanted to release this episode to just have all the info in one place for you.

So we've known that alcohol is a carcinogen for a long time. This is not new news.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified alcohol as a group one carcinogen since 1988.

In 2010, it was found that there is no generally safe threshold for alcohol consumption.

And in 2021, it was found that there is no safe level of alcohol for brain health and even moderate drinking shrinks the brain.

So this is old news, but the benefit of putting cancer warning labels on alcohol bottles

is it just gets the message out there. A recent study from the National Cancer Institute found

that about 50% of Americans don't know that alcohol causes cancer.

And many people that do know think it's more of just a liquor thing. And that's what we say

to ourselves too, right? Oh, it's just wine and beer. At least it's not liquor. But it's the actual

alcohol. It's not the

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