Posted 4/21/2025

Typically, if the surgeon general must make a remark about it, it adversely affects your health in a serious manner. Alcohol may cause health problems isn't accurate at all. It has been proven to cause several health problems. The human body treats alcohol the same way it does any other toxin... Click Here.

It's dangerous and misguided to have people under the impression that it may or may not cause health problems. The surgeon general's warning barely touches the surface about what alcohol does. Because of studies that link drinking alcohol to seven different types of cancer, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is now calling for an update to the warning on alcoholic beverages. In the past, people have been encouraged to limit alcohol intake to so many drinks per day instead of being told not to consume it. Smoking is extremely dangerous as well. It is linked to emphysema, strokes, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease, and a slew of other ailments. Warnings on tobacco products are listed depending on the type of tobacco product... Click Here.

Perhaps big industry has some influence over how the surgeon general's warnings are disseminated to the public. In the United States, the tobacco market size was valued at $75.9 billion in 2021 alone. That is a reduction from previous years, prior to strong campaigns made against "big tobacco" by organizations like truthinitiative.org. The amount tobacco generates in sales is dwarfed by the alcohol industry (wine, beer, and spirits): 260 billion in the United States in 2022 alone. If not for the government's relaxed approach to these deadly substances, the numbers would probably be much smaller, and so would the death rate.

Some of these products are being promoted in a covert way through music and movies... Click Here. Movie producers may have to mention that there is smoking, drinking, or even drug use in their film, but they don't have to burden the public with information about health risks associated with using these products. Music producers only have to place a parental advisory label on their content and often don't when their music comes over the airwaves. On the other hand, the government did try to ban alcohol back in the 1920s during Prohibition. This only spurred crime and the growth of the Italian Mafia when Al Capone took over the alcohol industry via bootlegging. Bootlegging is the illegal manufacture, distribution, or sale of goods. The federal government faced immense pressure to legalize alcohol afterwards.