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Limitations In American Adults’ Awareness Of And Beliefs About Alcohol As A Risk Factor For Cancer, Marc T. Kiviniemi, Heather Orom, Jennifer L. Hay, Erika A. Waters
Limitations In American Adults’ Awareness Of And Beliefs About Alcohol As A Risk Factor For Cancer, Marc T. Kiviniemi, Heather Orom, Jennifer L. Hay, Erika A. Waters
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Alcohol is a carcinogen. Recommendations to reduce alcohol use to lower cancer risk are increasingly common. However, neither the beliefs of US adults about alcohol consumption and cancer risk, nor factors influencing those beliefs, are well understood. We used data from the 2019 Health Information National Trends Survey (analysis N = 4,470) to examine beliefs about whether drinking too much alcohol increases cancer risk. We compared those beliefs to beliefs for three other health problems, and examined whether believing alcohol is a cancer risk factor was related to demographics, risk perceptions, other beliefs about the nature of cancer, and alcohol …