Alcohol consumption worldwide--and the relationship with cancer.

the American Institute for Cancer Research (1997) has produced a 670 page book entitled Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective published in Washington, USA, by the American Institute for Cancer Research. In part 111, ’Nutrition, Food and Cancer’, there is a discourse on ’Alcohol’ ,Chapter 5.5, pp. 398-403, which commences by observing that there is no physiological need for alcohol and that it is an addictive drug. There is reference to the variability of alcohol consumption in different parts of the world, ranging from zero or near zero consumption (in low income countries or where there is prohibition) to 10%