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Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan faces significant delays in implementing key prevention measures, a new study finds. Actions against alcohol and tobacco risks are stalled due to legislative inaction and political sensitivity. The study highlights that mandatory alcohol health warnings and taxation reviews are pending, despite alcohol causing 4% of EU cancers and having no safe consumption threshold. Policy incoherence, like alcohol liberalization in Finland, risks undermining th

In its sixth Evidence Summary Brief, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) highlights alcohol as a major preventable cause of cancer. Despite growing public health concern, alcohol consumption continues to increase in several world regions, including the Americas, the Western Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa, and South-East Asia. Consumption is currently highest in Europe, where awareness remains low: less than half of people know that alcohol can cause cancer.