• Jarix@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    What do you mean when you used the word safe? Genuinely curious, not just being a dick

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      17 hours ago

      No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

      To identify a “safe” level of alcohol consumption, valid scientific evidence would need to demonstrate that at and below a certain level, there is no risk of illness or injury associated with alcohol consumption. The new WHO statement clarifies: currently available evidence cannot indicate the existence of a threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol “switch on” and start to manifest in the human body.

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        16 hours ago

        Oh that. Bloody useless as I understand it.

        Apparently according to something I also read the amount of carcinogen you are exposed to on a 18 minute walk next to a low but noticeable traffic (I remember it saying 20ish cars per minute) is orders of magnitude stronger in regards to cancer causing factors in daily life.

        I’m not 100% certain about equating carcinogenic effects to causing cancer but I don’t know any other reason to talk about carcinogens.

        Sorry to bother you, this was all a nothing burger. Sorry I asked and wasted your time, and mine too