{"id":425739,"date":"2024-11-30T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=425739"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Most-Americans-Don-t-Know-Alcohol-s-Links-to-Cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Most-Americans-Don-t-Know-Alcohol-s-Links-to-Cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans Don&#8217;t Know Alcohol&#8217;s Links to Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Alcohol advertising is apparently drowning out warnings about the cancer risks posed by drinking<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>6 in 10 Americans surveyed had no idea that drinking increases their cancer risk<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A sizable percentage wrongly think drinking may have a protective effect<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FRIDAY, Nov. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) \u2014 Less than half of Americans realize that they&#8217;re increasing their risk of cancer with every beer, cocktail or shot of whiskey.<\/p>\n<p>Despite public health warnings about the links between drinking and cancer risk, this widespread lack of awareness is the key takeaway from a new nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/APPC_ASAPH_Alcohol_Toplines_v2.pdf\">survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public health messages about the risks associated with drinking alcohol have to overcome the effects of decades of sophisticated marketing and positive media portrayals,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc.upenn.edu\/people\/faculty\/patrick-e-jamieson-phd\">Patrick Jamieson<\/a>, director of \u00a0 of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which conducted the poll.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of adults in the U.S. drink alcohol \u2014 17% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/a-to-z-health\/child-health\/binge-drinking-646078.html\">binge<\/a> drink and and 6% are heavy drinkers, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00a0Binge drinking is four or more drinks in two hours for women and five or more for men.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC says people can &#8220;lower your risk for cancer by drinking less alcohol or drinking none at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that message has apparently been lost on most Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Six in 10 surveyed were unaware that regular alcohol use increases odds for developing cancer, the survey showed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four in 10 weren&#8217;t certain that statement was true, and 2 in 10 were even farther off the mark \u2014 either wrongly saying drinking would have no effect or would <em>lower<\/em> a person&#8217;s cancer risk, the survey found.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents came from a panel of 1,744 adults questioned in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about alcohol and cancer risk at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/about-cancer\/causes-prevention\/risk\/alcohol\/alcohol-fact-sheet\">National Cancer Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Annenberg Public Policy Center, news release, Nov. 22, 2024<\/p>\n<p><h2><strong>What This Means For You<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Be aware of the health consequences of drinking, which include an increased risk for cancer.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/760b87d328fefb5533701f45c88d3370.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>alcohol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways Alcohol advertising is apparently drowning out warnings about the cancer risks posed by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}