Murthy argues in his advisory, noting alcohol consumption is to blame for nearly one million preventable cancer cases in the U.S. over the last decade. About 20,000 people die every year from those alcohol-related cancer cases
They expect people who are drinking enough to get cancer from it to be so into the health food craze to be scared of that? You could eat like 2 fewer hot pockets per year and it would do as much good. Most of these people probably smoke, which is where you've actively made a decision that you're okay with getting cancer.
The hypocrisy of this is just astounding. We put warning labels on alcohol products about stuff that everyone knows (you might actually be worse at driving! 
) but for some reason reason out of all food and drink, booze has an exception for nutritional information. Why? When did this start? What possible justification is there for this? Why in the frick would you print any kind of warning on it if you won't even just tell women it's going to make them fat? Why do we go through this charade of pretending the government in Elliot Ness when there's tax incentives for the wine industry, the beer industry, the weed industry, the mushroom industry. Extreme taxes on the tobacco industry because I guess they were actually the ones really hurting people.
The Surgeon General's office has not replied to MNN's request for comments.
Also BTW am I literally the first fricking person in America who ever noticed this? I have never in my entire life ever heard anyone notice that alcohol makes your product less regulated.
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Alcohol is regulated by the ATF and its predecessors since ye olde days, because they were charging federal excise tax
. This is true for most other countries too. When they created the FDA to regulate other foods they exempted alcohol for that reason, and FDA rules is where nutrition labels come from.
Why can't we just extend FDA some authority over nutrition labeling for booze? Ummm we just can't okay!
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The earnings from alcohol are just as irresistible as ever. For example, in late
times, Gorbachev's efforts to curb alcoholism (by banning them) were squashed because it meant that Soviet coffers will dry up much faster, since alcohol-related tax formed a huge portion of Soviet spending (even more during the Tsarist era)
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I miss my boomer times (the 1940s) when the Treasury Department T-Men didn't frick around asking Congress for permission to beat the shit out of a guy.
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