Since health warning labels first appeared in the U.S. in the 1960s, tobacco consumption has dropped by a remarkable 73%—from 42.6% in 1965 to 11.6% in 2022.

Only Congress has the power to mandate changes to warning labels. Alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States, Vivek Murthy said. Accessibility statement Skip to ...

Any effort to add a cancer warning label to alcohol would face significant push back from a well-funded and powerful beverage industry, which spends nearly $30 million every year lobbying Congress.

On Friday, the U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory that warned of the correlation between alcohol consumption and an increased risk of cancer, calling for alcoholic beverages to carry a label ...