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You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
A warning for Drinkers From America's top doctor there is a causal link between alcohol and seven types of cancer.
Alcohol consumption contributes to roughly 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 deaths each year.
A reminder he wants added to warning labels already on booze, beer and wine.
So I heard this news last week and I thought to myself, here is another very unnuanced binary solution to what feels like a very nuanced problem.
My name is Boris Fishman and I am primarily a novelist.
But over the last couple of years I have also found myself writing more and more about wine.
So late last week, the Surgeon General issued a recommendation that cancer warnings be applied to all alcohol sales in this country, which is something that I believe Congress must act on first.
But the recommendation itself is weighty and consequential.
So the news wasn't a total surprise because anecdotally this has been happening for a while.
Reports have been coming out for some time saying that alcohol is bad in any amount.
And these findings have real consequences.
You know, we had dry January.