Drinking one bottle of wine a week is as cancer-causing as smoking up to ten cigarettes during the same time period, a new study claims.
British researchers found that downing a weekly bottle of vino is on par with smoking five cigarettes for men and 10 cigarettes for women, according to the study, published Thursday in the journal BMC Public Health.
In total, the wine consumption increases a man’s “lifetime cancer risk” by 1 per cent and woman’s by 1.4 per cent, according to authors of the study, who crunched UK health and population data.