wiegveld schreef op 3 januari 2025 16:14:
Er is wel een reden dat alle alcoholische drankenbedrijven onderuit gaan!
De USA wil kankerwaarschuwingen op drankverpakkingen.
(Bloomberg) -- Alcohol products like beer and wine should carry warnings of their links to cancer, the US Surgeon General said, citing an increased risk of developing tumors in the breast and other parts of the body.
Scientific evidence of the connections between alcohol and cancer has been rising for decades, but less than half of Americans recognize the risk, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said in an advisory Friday.
Alcohol causes about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 related deaths each year in the US, Murthy said, far more than the 13,500 alcohol-related fatalities from traffic crashes. Direct links have been shown between alcohol and at least seven types of cancer, he said, including those of the throat, mouth, esophagus, voice box, colon and liver, and more than 16% of breast cancers.
Alcohol’s links to cancer have been known since the 1980s, and the substance is ranked as the third-leading preventable cause of the disease, after tobacco and obesity. More than 70% of Americans report having at least one drink a week, according to the statement.
The issue is a global one, with about 741,300 cases of cancer attributable to alcohol consumption worldwide in 2020. Yet in a 2019 survey, just 45% of Americans were aware of the risk posed by alcohol, compared with about 90% awareness for radiation exposure and tobacco each, the statement said.
Guidelines for alcohol consumption should be reassessed to account for their links to cancer, and doctors should highlight the danger when advising patients about drinking, the document said.
Of the 47 World Health Organization member countries with alcohol warning labels, only South Korea requires a cancer warning. Ireland will require a cancer warning starting in 2026.
What Bloomberg Intelligence Says:
Spirit and beer companies with high US exposure, such as Diageo (35%-plus of revenue), Remy Cointreau (25%) and AB InBev (22%) may see sales decline if cancer-warning labels become mandatory in the US, in line with the Surgeon General’s recommendations. Alcohol premium-sales strategies might help them offset the volume decline, though that would likely take time — two years in tobacco’s case.
— Duncan Fox, BI consumer-goods analyst. Read the research here.
Representatives for LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE’s wines and spirits unit, Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, Diageo Plc, Pernod Ricard and Heineken didn’t immediately reply when asked to comment. LVMH owns labels such as Moët & Chandon and Dom Perignon Champagne as well as Hennessy Cognac. Diageo is the maker of Smirnoff vodka and Don Julio tequila. Pernod Ricard brands include Absolut vodka and Jameson whiskey. The French lobby groups for Cognac and Champagne makers didn’t immediately respond when asked to comment as well.
Shares of drinks makers declined. AB InBev, the maker of Budweiser beer, fell 2.7% in Brussels. Constellation Brands Inc. was down 2.3% in Friday trading in New York and Molson Coors Beverage Co. lost 2.1%.