{"id":19539,"date":"2025-01-08T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19539"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:28:14","slug":"the-surgeon-generals-warnings-about-alcohol-hit-restaurants-at-a-tricky-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19539","title":{"rendered":"The Surgeon General\u2019s Warnings About Alcohol Hit Restaurants at a Tricky Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The surgeon general\u2019s call to arms about the link between drinking and cancer could strike at a fiscal lifeline for restaurateurs facing falling sales.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. surgeon general\u2019s new push<\/a> to warn consumers about the link between drinking and cancer comes at a precarious time for restaurant owners trying to pencil out a profit that hinges on alcohol sales.<\/p>\n

Costs of food and labor have risen, and some inflation-weary Americans continue to cut back<\/a> on eating out. Sales dipped 1.7 percent between November 2023 and November 2024, according to the National Restaurant Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When people do go out to eat, some aren\u2019t drinking as much. Members of Generation Z in particular are moderating how much they consume<\/a> and have helped popularize terms like \u201csober curious\u201d and \u201cCalifornia sober,\u201d in which cannabis replaces alcohol. A September survey showed 32 percent of all consumers who drink at least a few times a year were drinking less often in 2024 than before the pandemic, according to the research firm Datassential.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a new era of nonalcoholic drinking,\u201d said Renee Wege, a trend expert and publications manager at the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned on Friday<\/a> that alcohol is a preventable cause of cancer, and called for reconsidering the federal government\u2019s guidelines for how much Americans can safely drink. As with cigarettes, he said, the cautionary labels already on alcoholic beverages should mention the risk of cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants the warning labels on alcoholic drinks to warn about cancer risk.<\/span>Allison Dinner\/EPA, via Shutterstock<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The surgeon general\u2019s call to arms about the link between drinking and cancer could strike at a fiscal lifeline for restaurateurs facing falling sales.The U.S. surgeon general\u2019s new push to warn consumers about the link between drinking and cancer comes at a precarious time for restaurant owners trying to pencil out a profit that hinges on alcohol sales.Costs of food and labor have risen, and some inflation-weary Americans continue to cut back on eating out. Sales dipped 1.7 percent between November 2023 and November 2024, according to the National Restaurant Association.When people do go out to eat, some aren\u2019t drinking as much. Members of Generation Z in particular are moderating how much they consume and have helped popularize terms like \u201csober curious\u201d and \u201cCalifornia sober,\u201d in which cannabis replaces alcohol. A September survey showed 32 percent of all consumers who drink at least a few times a year were drinking less often in 2024 than before the pandemic, according to the research firm Datassential.\u201cWe are in a new era of nonalcoholic drinking,\u201d said Renee Wege, a trend expert and publications manager at the company.Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned on Friday that alcohol is a preventable cause of cancer, and called for reconsidering the federal government\u2019s guidelines for how much Americans can safely drink. As with cigarettes, he said, the cautionary labels already on alcoholic beverages should mention the risk of cancer.Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants the warning labels on alcoholic drinks to warn about cancer risk.Allison Dinner\/EPA, via ShutterstockWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19541,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19542,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539\/revisions\/19542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}