Prominent, mandatory health warning labels on alcohol products should be implemented across Europe to raise awareness on the link between drinking and cancer, a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
The report, published on Friday, revealed that alcohol consumption in the European Union (EU) per capita in 2019 was twice the world average, making it home to the heaviest drinkers in the world. Alcohol causes an estimated 800,000 deaths every year in the region. In 2020, almost 112,000 new cancers were directly attributed to alcohol, and there were more than 50,000 alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in the EU, with colorectal and breast cancer representing the largest proportion of new cancer cases, the report further revealed.
Although the link between alcohol and cancer has long been…