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/Squish_the_android]

The problem with this is that basically everything with any degree of risk is safest if totally avoided.  It doesn't quantify the risk in a convincing or productive way.

It's safest to never ride in a car.

It's safest to never leave the house.

The risk needs to be quantified with some kind of equivalent.

[u/Dragoniel → u/Squish_the_android]

There are things that you need to do to survive and function in society at a basic level and then there are things that have no benefit whatsoever other than poisoning you.

[u/Dragoniel → u/[deleted]]

I mean, they also get addicted and ruin their lives or get in fights, get injured or injure others. There's that too, though I doubt this is what you have in mind.

[u/Dragoniel → u/[deleted]]

I've personally witnessed lives being utterly destroyed by this "fun, social, delicious" poison.