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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Tom Watling

Alcohol labels should warn of cancer risk, urge health groups

Alcoholic drinks should have labels that explicitly state the link between drinking and cancer, an alliance of doctors, charities and public experts has urged.

The labels are vital to combatting a historic lack of awareness among Britons that alcohol consumption is proven to cause seven forms of cancer, as well as 17,000 cases of the disease a year, they claim.

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