Talk:Alcohol

WHO

[In reference to my revision, 01:29, 20 July 2024‎]

I have no qualms with mentioning the potential health risks, but within the Toxicity and harm potential unless the potential health detriment is severe and can either easily be done on accident, and/or is difficult to avoid, for example the simple fact of ethanol being a carcinogen, in any dose this is a health detriment, so putting this a frontal warning would be understandable, however i take issue with the following :

The following quote: "The World Health Organization emphasizes, "there is no safe amount that does not affect health.". Alarmingly, the WHO also highlighted that nearly half of all alcohol-attributable cancers in the European Region are linked to consumption, even from "light" or "moderate" drinking.[6]"

Firstly, there is no drug that has any sort of remotely significant affect on a biological system within the body, that does not effect health, there is no reason for this statement to be here, i understand the writer is criticizing this ignorant statement by the WHO, but then proceeds to actually cite them right after that statement with the claim of half light to moderate drinkers being linked to alcohol-related cancers.

Upon reviewing that claim, i could not find any actual study proving the claim that infact "light or moderate" drinking is the causality for alcohol related cancers, this is simply a corrleational claim, until a citation to a direct study can actually prove a causality here, i do not believe this section should remain.

I added: According to the WHO nearly half of all alcohol-attributable cancers in the WHO European Region are linked to alcohol consumption, even from "light" or "moderate" drinking – "less than 1.5 litres of wine or less than 3.5 litres of beer or less than 450 millilitres of spirits per week". --David Hedlund (talk) 18:45, 11 June 2025 (UTC)