The U.S. may add new warning labels on alcohol. But the history of cigarette warning labels suggests it's not enough.

Murthy called on Congress to modernize these labels to reflect the now well-established cancer risk, as other countries including South Korea and Ireland have done. Alcohol consumption raises the ...

Don't miss: Only three out of 27 countries have such labels. While the U.S. is no longer a part of WHO, there have also been warnings here in regards to the cancer risks attributed to alcohol.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call Friday to require alcohol labels warning of cancer risk will likely face strong resistance in Congress, which would have to pass a law to require the labels.

Murthy’s advisory comes as research and evidence mounts about the bad effects that alcohol has on human health, but his proposal for a label would require a rare approval from the U.S. Congress.

The effects of alcohol warning labels on population alcohol consumption: an interrupted time series analysis of alcohol sales in Yukon, Canada. J Stud Alcohol Drugs . 2020;81(2):225-237. doi:10. ...

2025) have called for stricter warning labels on all alcohol products. The latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, once again published a call for warning labels ...