The risks for men were equivalent to five cigarettes per week, they added.
She added: “We must be absolutely clear that this study is not saying that drinking alcohol in moderation is in any way equivalent to smoking. Our finds relate to lifetime risk across the population. “The average UK drinker reports drinking the equivalent of about a bottle-and-a-half of wine a week, and the average smoker smokes about 10 cigarettes a day, or 70 a week.
Sophia Lowes, from Cancer Research UK, said: “Smoking remains the biggest cause of cancer, so this comparison can be useful to raise awareness of less well-known risk factors like alcohol. It highlights that even low levels of drinking can increase the risk of cancer.
Yeah ok. But what is the increased risk of Heart Disease from not drinking red wine. The health benefitsof drinking red wine are so significant that encouraging people not to is quite simply irresponsible.
Cheap wine is full of sulphites.
These 'studies' are BS and you, of all publications, printing it, endorses it. Every week/month/year, the same old crap gets trotted out. Drink wine; Don't drink wine. Wait, do, but only a glass a day/week/month. Eat eggs, wait, don't, well, maybe one then if you're hungry...
Pure nonsence
I knew a husband and wife who drank 3 glassy of red wine a day , lunch,Dinner,Supper, and both lived till 93 /92 amazing
Who funded this study, the tobacco industry?
A glass of wine a day adds up to 1 bottle a week and you the media stated not so long ago that a glass of wine a day could help prevent cancer!! You guys (the media) are full of shit!!
I’d say it’s a nightly bottle for a lot of people
I’d prefer the wine to the 10 cigarettes
Thanks I can live with that
Ah feck off will ya