Risk of cancer from drinking one bottle of wine is the equivalent of smoking 10 CIGARETTES | Daily Mail Online

Risk of cancer from drinking one bottle of wine is the equivalent of smoking 10 CIGARETTES | Daily Mail Online
Risk of getting cancer from drinking just one bottle of wine is the same as smoking up to 10 CIGARETTES a week

• Experts compared the known dangers of smoking to that of drinking too much 
• One bottle of wine - 10 units - is five cigarettes for men or 10 for women a week
• The risk of cancer from downing three bottles of wine each week is much higher

Having one bottle of wine each week raises the risk of cancer by the same amount as smoking up to 10 cigarettes, scientists claim..."

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In the first study of its kind, academics managed to compare the known dangers of smoking to that of drinking too much

Researchers at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Bangor University and University of Southampton carried out the study.

Dr Theresa Hydes and team estimated 10 in 1,000 men would develop cancer at some point in their lives from drinking one bottle of wine each week.

However, for women this figure was 14 out of 1,000, according to the study published in the journal BioMedCentral Public Health..."
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