3 Alcohol Use
Frequent alcohol consumption is a known carcinogen. According to research published in the American Journal of Public Health, the consumption of alcohol resulted in anywhere from 18,200 to 21,300 cancer deaths in 2009, making up a little over 3 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States. Scientists have found several ways in which alcohol increases a person’s risk of cancer, one of which being that the ethanol in a drink gets broken down into acetaldehyde, which can damage genetic material.
