Hosted by Alcohol Action NZ and Cancer Society of NZ, Te Papa 17 June 2015
1. In 1988, the World Health Organisation’s
International Agency for Cancer Research scheduled alcohol (ethyl
alcohol, ethanol) as a Group 1 carcinogen – an agent for which there is
sufficient evidence to assert it directly causes cancer.2. The degree of public awareness about the link between alcohol and cancer in New Zealanders is not known. In Canada, public awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer has slowly increased from 21% in 1996 to 36% in 2012, and education level did not predict awareness of the link.
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