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Read more: https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2019/03/28/cigarettes-and-alcohol-should-we-be-communicating-cancer-risk-in-terms-of-cigarettes-smoked/
TIL drinking a bottle of wine a week carries the same lifetime cancer risk as smoking up to 10 cigarettes a week in women and 5 in men
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I’ll come back next week when someone posts an article about drinking a glass a day to lower cancer risk.
But what if I smoke AND drink?
“One bottle of wine per week is associated with an increased absolute lifetime cancer risk for non-smokers of 1.0% (men) and 1.4% (women). The overall absolute increase in cancer risk for one bottle of wine per week equals that of five (men) or ten cigarettes per week (women). Gender differences result from levels of moderate drinking leading to a 0.8% absolute risk of breast cancer in female non-smokers.”
Which is to say ‘not all that much.’
So, if my understanding of the metric system holds, and drinking a bottle of wine a week is equivalent in risk to smoking five cigarettes a week, as a man, if I drink a quart of bourbon a week, that’s … [does the math] … the equivalent risk to running a mile and furlong fortnightly while carrying a backpack weighing two stone.
Fortunately, I have never drunk one bottle a week.
If I could only smoke 10 cigs a week I’d still be smoking and perfectly fine with that risk.
Well, good thing I drink whiskey.
Living sure does kill ya.
Thank goodness I drink at least 2 bottles a week.
Whew, glad i only drink 750Ml of Jaeger a week, i was almost worried for a minute
I’ll die from cancer before I give up alcohol
That’s not that many cigarettes really. I think I’m ok with this.
I never thought of smoking the cigarettes -inside- the women.
A bottle a week? Don’t mind me if I don’t extrapolate.
Who smokes 10 cigarettes per week?
Well in this case, I should already be dead.
All that BS about wine being good for providing antioxidants and replacing it with fucking cancer…