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The stocks of alcohol makers and distributors fell across the board early Friday, after the U.S. surgeon general released a new advisory warning of the link between booze and cancer risk.

In an advisory issued Friday, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recommended that labels on alcoholic beverages be updated to include a warning about the risk of cancer associated with alcohol ...

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Alcohol opens the body up to a wider variety of cancers: Mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, breast, liver, and colon and rectum. Just one drink of any kind a day can increase the risk of certain ...

The U.S. Surgeon General has released a new advisory on the link between alcohol and cancer. The advisory advocates for adding cancer risk to the health warning label on alcoholic beverages ...

Alcohol directly contributes to 20,000 cancer deaths a year, the surgeon general says, and should carry a warning label. Does even just one drink a day pose a cancer risk?