A bottle of wine a week is equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes: study

According to a new study, drinking a bottle of wine a week is as carcinogenic as smoking up to ten cigarettes during the same period.

British researchers have discovered that a bottle of wine a week is equivalent to smoking five cigarettes for men and ten cigarettes for women, according to the study published Thursday in the journal BMC Public Health.

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In total, wine consumption increases the "lifetime risk of cancer" for men by 1% and that of women by 1.4%, according to the authors of the study, who analyzed British data on health and population.

"Our estimate of the equivalent cigarette for alcohol provides a useful measure for communicating potential cancer risks that exploit successful historical messages about smoking," said Theresa Hydes, the lead author of the report, in a statement. "We hope that by using the cigarette as a comparator, we could communicate this message more effectively to help individuals make more informed lifestyle choices."

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But the research does not take into account other undoubtedly more important factors related to smoking, such as heart and respiratory diseases, said doctors and other critics of the medical world.

"Although it is an interesting statistical analysis, the study did not take into account the effects of alcohol and smoking on cardiovascular and cardiovascular health. "Other Organs," Francisco Esteva, head of breast cancer oncology at the Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University, told HuffPost. "Comparing the cancer risks associated with a specific number of cigarettes to a bottle of wine is pretty simplistic and can send the wrong message."

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