The family that drinks together... - Gary L Alexander - October 1974

Gary L Alexander

An important Federal report sent to the U. S. Congress last July 10 warns that a person who drinks more than three ounces of whiskey (the standard "double"), a half bottle of wine, or four glasses of beer daily runs nearly a 2 1/2 times greater risk of mouth cancer than an abstainer, or about the same cancer risk as a person who smokes 40 cigarettes each day. And if the heavy drinker added these three ounces of whiskey to a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, the risk of developing cancer of the mouth or throat multiplied to 15 times that of an abstainer. The report considered three ounces of whiskey (or about 1 ½ ounces of absolute alcohol) as the "upper limit of moderation." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library