Study: Bottle Of Wine A Week ‘As Bad As 5-10 Cigarettes’ For Cancer Risk

(CBS Local) — Drinking a bottle of wine per week increases the risk of cancer by the equivalent of smoking five to 10 cigarettes, depending on your gender, a new study has found.
For women, drinking one bottle of wine per week increases the risk of cancer to the same extent as smoking 10 cigarettes a week, mostly due to an increased risk of breast cancer caused by drinking, according to the study published Thursday in the journal BMC Public Health.
For men, drinking a bottle of wine a week