Institute of Alcohol Studies

Cancer Prevention Action Week in June was about tackling health misinformation.

In our latest podcast, we discuss how the alcohol industry misinforms the public about alcohol’s link to cancer.

With Melissa Dando of @WCRF_UK & Sue Taylor of @BalanceNE

🔗https://www.ias.org.uk/podcast/alcohol-and-cancer-fighting-back-against-misinformation/

Drinkaware’s CEO questions whether the WHO’s ‘Best Buys’ are needed to reduce alcohol harm, when “a number of the big trends are already going in the right direction.”

2024 saw the 4th highest alcohol death rate since 2001, hardly a positive trend.

Alcohol causes 146,000 cancers a year across the EU – 16% of all cancers at the sites it’s linked to.

A new study confirms what we’ve long known: taxing alcohol, restricting marketing, and limiting availability all reduce cancer risk.

A coroner has raised serious concerns about the “unrestricted availability of alcohol” on delivery apps following the death of a 28-year-old man who repeatedly ordered large quantities of alcohol while intoxicated.

Time for the Government to act.