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What Level of Carcinogen is Alcohol? A Look at the Evidence

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According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), alcoholic beverages were classified as a Group 1 carcinogen in 1987. This places alcohol in the same category as other confirmed human carcinogens, a fact that may be surprising to many people and definitively answers what level of carcinogen is alcohol.