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Surgeon General calls for cancer risk warning on alcoholic beverages

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Dr. Vivek Murthy says alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S. The advisory notes that alcohol is responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States .

The American public is largely unaware of the risk, despite a link between alcohol use and cancer coming to light in the 1980s .

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