The U.S. Surgeon General is calling for a warning label on alcohol, saying; “alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer, responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths every year in the united states.

The top U.S. health official is calling for all alcoholic beverages to carry a warning label about cancer risk.

Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Friday about alcohol and cancer risk and called for changes to beverage warning labels.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, recently released an advisory that calls for adding cancer warning labels to alcohol. The report said that alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States, after tobacco and obesity.

A quarter of nations worldwide have health risk labels on alcohol. But only South Korea has a warning about liver cancer.

"The fact that alcohol is associated with cancer is nothing new. Alcohol is an established carcinogen," Dr. Kathleen Egan at Moffitt Cancer Center said. She says alcohol has been

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