Big Alcohol’s Attack on the EU’s Beating Cancer Plan - A Case Study
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Big Alcohol’s Attack on the EU’s Beating Cancer Plan The Alcohol Issues Podcast – Season 2 Episode 04 This podcast episode is part of Movendi International’s work to promote evidence-based alcohol policy development at all levels and to translate scientific evidence into policy action that protects people and communities from alcohol harm. Alcohol’s cancer burden in Europe The products and practices of the alcohol industry cause a massive burden of harm, including cancer. But most people remain unaware of this extent and severity of alcohol harm. For instance, in the European Union, in 2016 cancer was the most common cause of alcohol-related deaths at 29%. Alcohol causes 7 types of cancer. Low-dose alcohol consumption levels caused almost 23,000 new cancer cases in the EU in 2017, and accounted for 13.3% of all alcohol-attributable cancers. Almost half of these (∼11,000 cases) were female breast cancers. More than a third of the cancer cases due to low-dose alcohol use resulted from a level of
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