Drinking alcohol can cause cancer...do enough people know?

I was looking at a site today,where a scientist who has studied cancer for years, said that if normal cells were starved of oxygen by 35% over a period of 48 hours,those cells will turn cancerous.

There are so many different reasons for cancer,that if we took notice of all of them,we wouldn't eat or drink anything.

Everything causes cancer these days! I can't sweeten my tea, go out to the park on a nice day, or even get accidentally bumped in the chest in a crowded place without someone screaming about how I'll develop cancer.

Drinking, like most things, have consequences. I like to get drunk every now and then. Usually once every 2-3 months. And I will occasionally have a drink with dinner or something. I know the risks, and I do it anyway.

It is good to be informed, but we can't live in cancer free bubbles.

The best way to stay healthy is to ignore all the health warnings. Only a few weeks ago we were told that a glass of wine a day was good for you, but a few weeks before that it wasn't. Now we are back where we started!

IIgnore it all, everything in moderation is the answer. You are far more likely to get cancer by worrying and obsessing about it.

Depending on which scientific study you read you get different results

If you eat meat you get cancer but you also get cancer if you dont ,If you smoke you get cancer but you also get cancer if you dont

Even things like lettuce ,eggs and everything else can give you cancer/

The ONLY fact to date is they still havent found a real cause

You last sentence "Obviously not everyone who drinks will develop cancer " My Question : WHY??

See, there's a problem right here. Lots of people know. And most of them don't care. My wife works for a brewery; government campaigns against alcohol do not affect sales by more than a single percentage point of annual sales.

The problem is that little three letter word 'can.' File it along with 'might,' 'may' and 'could.' You might get cancer. You could damage your liver. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow, but you don't live your life as though each day might be your last, do you?

And incidentally, it's Friday night, and this little can of Heineken sitting near the keyboard says I'll give up alcohol completely when I'm dead. And if there's any sort of afterlife the beer better be bloody good.

My Dear every thing causes cancer these days. But its only when some scientist does some reasearch then people believe it. But do they also tell you that some food can cause cancer, and then there's all the personal care products, and cleaning products, that have some very dangerous chemicals in them. No.

How comes many people who have never drunk or smoked in their lives get Cancer. Think about it.

They give you so much Pro and Con information that you don't know what to believe. The people in France have lower rates of heart disease because of their alcohol consumption and not higher cancer rates.

Many things will increase a persons risk of getting cancer, its a case of everything in moderation, when we gonna get that?

O.M.G., here we go again, blame is put on just about everything ! In the past it has been rare cooked meat, potato skins, fatty foods, car exhausts, now we've got to alcohol. O.K. I'll hold my hands up, every now and then I have a pint to many, yet I never remember anyone telling me that too much work was harmful !

So? Lots of things can cause cancer. I certainly am not giving up drinking over that. I think drinking is far more dangerous for liver disease than cancer.