The Cancer Council of Australia announced the other day that there is a closer link between alcohol drinking and cancer than previously thought.

It seems now that alcohol causes not only uncommon cancers like liver cancer and throat cancer — but is also a factor in the major killer cancers, like bowel cancer and breast cancer.

The research doesn’t suggest that there is any safe amount of alcohol that you can drink, but that all alcohol drinking increases one’s risk.

So what to do?

Logically one should drink no alcohol at all.

Starting now.

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All beer, whisky and wine containers should carry a health warning, such as:

CAUTION: Users of this product are not only likely to throw up, fall down, get punched out in bars, lose their jobs and lose their families — they also increase their risk of dying of cancer – painful and distressing — also distressing to those having to watch it happen.

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Will the Church take the lead in advocating complete abstinence from alcohol?

We will have to wait and see.

Should it?                                                 

The answer to that question seems obvious.