Drinks industry downplaying alcohol-cancer link – report

More than 100 studies since 2007 have shown that alcohol, even in moderate amounts, increases the risk of breast cancer.The drinks industry is misleading the public by downplaying and misrepresenting the link between alcohol and cancer – especially breast cancer – in a bid to protect its profits, new research claims.Alcohol firms and “responsible drinking” bodies they fund are denying that drink causes cancer and distorting the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, in in