Drinking a bottle of wine equals how many cigarettes you smoke.

Original title: Drinking a bottle of wine equals how many cigarettes you smoke
A new scientific study suggests there may also be a clear link between alcohol consumption and cancer, and scientists can help people "change" the relationship between moderate drinking and cancer and raise public awareness of the "cancer risk from alcohol."
study was carried out by a team of researchers from the University Hospital of Southampton, Bangor University and the University of Southampton, who published the results in the latest issue of the international open access journal BMC Public Health.Dr Teresa Hayes, a member of the research team, said:
Our study describes the cancer risk corresponding to different alcohol intake levels in the UK population and is the only current study to provide a 'cancer risk conversion for tobacco and alcohol'. The
that a bottle of wine a week is about five cigarettes a week for men and about 10 cigarettes a week for women. Teresa Hayes said: "We want to be able to answer the question: how many cigarettes does a bottle of wine amount to in terms of pure cancer risk - that is, to strip away cancer and other harms?
team assessed men who were not smokers and found that drinking one bottle of wine a week had a lifetime cancer risk of 1.0 percent of a person's lifetime risk. This figure is 1.4 per cent among non-smokers.
In other words, if 1,000 men and 1,000 women drank one bottle of wine each week, an extra 10 men and 14 women would develop cancer at some point in their lives compared to those who did not drink. Among men, the most significant cancer risk is concentrated in the digestive tract, while in women, 55% of cases are breast-related cancers.
Teresa Hayes said the study was designed to draw attention to the fact that "even moderate drinking, such as a bottle of wine a week, also poses a cancer risk, especially breast cancer risk." In particular, the team points out that the issue is all the more important given that the most common cancer in British women today is breast cancer.The
team also found that if three bottles of wine a week (about half a bottle a day) - a drink known to cause many different health problems - the lifetime risk of cancer rose to 1.9 percent for men and 3.6 percent for women.
, this is roughly equivalent to eight cigarettes a week for men and 23 cigarettes a week for women.
Theresa Hayes said: "We have to make it clear that this study is not about telling you that 'moderate drinking is somehow tantamount to smoking'. Our findings are based on lifetime risk across the population. On a personal level, the risk of cancer from drinking or smoking varies widely, and for many people, drinking a bottle of wine can be very different from smoking five to 10 cigarettes.
Therefore, to calculate the lifetime cancer risk values associated with "drinking one bottle of wine a week" or "smoking 10 cigarettes", the team used Cancer Research UK's lifetime cancer risk data, provided by the Office for National Statistics, the Scottish Information Service, the Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Service of Wales and the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry;the
team cautions that the study is not a comparative study of overall death rates from smoking and alcohol consumption because it does not take into account smoking or alcohol-related diseases other than cancer, such as respiratory, cardiovascular or liver disease.
"We are simply calculating the risks between cigarettes and alcohol, providing an effective way to further understand the cancer risks of alcohol by using past successful advocacy on the risks of smoking." Teresa Hayes said.
According to her, scientists have now identified "moderate" and "heavy drinking" as highly associated with cancer risk in the mouth, throat, esopdo, intestines, liver and breasts, but these risks are not as widespread among the public as "smoking" and "we hope that by using cigarettes as a reference, we can more effectively help people understand the risks of drinking and make lifestyle choices with full knowledge."
Chenhui, an online reporter for China Youth Daily.