Setting the bar for responsible drinking
The CCSA’s key media message was absolute: No amount of alcohol is safe, and even as few as three standard drinks a week pose a health danger, including higher risk of several cancers and most kinds of cardiovascular diseases.
The most obvious omission from the centre’s public statements are the study’s own data – consistent with– showing that modest alcohol consumption reduces the risk of some types of cardiovascular disease. The study also shows the risk of some cancers rising with alcohol consumption. But that risk is low for moderate drinkers, and those negative effects at low levels of consumption are much smaller than the positive effects on cardiovascular health.
It’s only after that point that drinkers have a statistically measurable higher overall health risk than a lifetime abstainer. By the time someone is consuming 14 standard drinks a week – the equivalent of two drinks a day, every day – any protective effect is dissipated. Those heavier users of alcohol face an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and other diseases.
There are also proposals for tobacco-like warnings on alcohol bottles that would flag cancer risks, for instance, and urge consumers to reduce their consumption.
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