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20. Trump admin and RFK Jr. buried major study on impact alcohol has on cancer: report
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 12:08 PM
Friday

I am glad that this report came out despite RFK Jr.'s and trump's efforts

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-alcohol-study-hidden/

Reporter Dylan Scott noted that the alcohol industry is working to ensure "most Americans still don’t know that alcohol can cause cancer." Now, however, a major analysis has evidence that there is a "link between drinking alcohol and getting sick and dying from various causes, including cancer."......

“The thing that the alcohol industry fears more than increased taxes is increased knowledge about the risks associated with drinking alcohol, particularly around cancer,” said Mike Marshall, who is the CEO of the Alcohol Policy Alliance. “Like the tobacco industry, like the opioid industry, they are working hard to prevent the American people from gaining the knowledge that they need to make the best decisions for themselves.”

It's unexpected, given that Trump's brother, Fred Trump Jr., died of complications related to alcoholism in 1981.

“I guess you could say now I’m the chief of trying to solve it,” Trump told The Washington Post six years ago when talking about fixing the opioid epidemic. “I don’t know that I’d be working, devoting the kind of time and energy and even the money we are allocating to (the opioid crisis) … I don’t know that I’d be doing that had I not had the experience with Fred.”...

Yet, when given the opportunity to address the health impacts, the administration even went so far as to change dietary guidelines to eliminate any specific recommended limits on alcohol consumption. The Biden administration previously intended to use the study to make educated, fact-based and studied guidelines.


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