The World Health Organization that now recommends to warn the risk of cancer of alcohol by alcohol. With a prominent warnings for corresponding drinks, consciousness must be included in the future that alcohol consumption can lead to cancer.
This simple and cheap measure can enable consumers to make decisions about their health, the regional organization wrote in Copenhagen. Ultimately, health damage caused by alcohol can be reduced, the WHO -regional office announced Europe in presenting a new report on the subject.
Europeans drink the most alcohol
In no other region in the world is as much drunk alcohol as in the European region. According to alcohol, the current worldwide status report of the WHO consumes 9.2 liters of pure alcohol per head of the population in 2019 – considerably more than the global average (5.5 liters). Seven out of ten countries in the world with the highest consumption are therefore in the EU, including Germany with a value of 12.2 liters of pure alcohol.
800,000 dead per year in Europe
The WHO warns that this is accompanied by considerable health risks. Accordingly, 800,000 people die in the WHO region of Europe every year of alcohol-related causes this is almost 2,200 people a day. Although cancer is the most common cause of death, the public consciousness of the relationship between alcohol and cancer is still frightening, the WHO Europe complained.
Source: Krone
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