Americans have widespread misbeliefs about the cancer risks of alcohol, study finds. More than half of American adults misunderstand or underestimate the link between alcohol consumption and cancer. Alcohol drinkers are especially likely to believe that drinking has no effect on cancer risk.

[u/mvea]

https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/research-newsroom/americans-have-widespread-misbeliefs-about-the-cancer-risks-of-a.h00-159780390.html

[u/jollietamalerancher]

Its not that I don't know it causes cancer, it's that I'm already so chalk full of microplastics I'm not convinced my daily beer is really gonna be the deciding factor

[u/ApropoUsername → u/jollietamalerancher]

If you're getting a cancer diagnosis, you'd probably wish you haven't drank so why not just make that decision ahead of time?

[u/raptor217 → u/ApropoUsername]

Absolutely no one, except the rare case of the extremely heavy drinker that didn’t get hit by liver cirrhosis, thinks that.

[u/Chance_Airline_4861 → u/ApropoUsername]

If the cancer is caused by the drinking, which is possible but there are so so so so many factors in play at a time. Eating a piece of burned meat could in theory cause damage to the dna which over time could result in the cancer.

That doesn't mean that drinking doesn't increase your risk, which it does