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A Sobering Christmas Reality: Cocktail of Hazardous Pesticides in Wine has Tripled
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I hate to break it to wine-drinkers, but alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen. If the risk of Parkinson's due to pesticide use scares you, you won't get away from cancer by going with organic wine.
Even the WHO isn't afraid to say that No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health, so the choice is in your hands.
I think the difference can be drawn in parallel to cigarettes: an unfiltered cigarette is worse than a filtered one for smoking. Both are obviously bad for you, but if you're stacking carcinogens and other health concerns, eventually you'll reach someone's breaking point. I don't think anyone is claiming alcohol is healthy, but I also don't think the response should be "it's already unhealthy, so this isn't won't stop anyone". Every risk associated decision we make adds to the statistics pool for whether we get sick. Mitigating that might actually worry someone enough to switch to a healthier (not healthy) form of alcohol consumption.
Can I have a source that filtered cigarettes are "healthier"
I found one source! It was sponsored by the British Tobacco Company, lol.
Nah, it's difficult to find recent data of it - because I get the impression from the papers I have found - the idea was thrown out as a marketing ploy in the 50s and has no significant impact on risk.
Instead it just makes cigarettes worse for the environment - because the filters don't decompose.
I mean it serves a purpose, it's so you don't get pieces of tobacco in your mouth. But other then that, I don't think it does much at all. The amount it obstructs could surely be counteracted by being able to smoke more tobacco by not having a burning ember near your fingers.