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Ethanol is classified by the WHO and the American Cancer Society (and others) as a carcinogen, in the same group as asbestos, hepatitis and plutonium.

That doesn't mean it's "equally carcinogenic" as those others...just that our knowledge of its carcinogenic properties are similarly confident. It's definitely a carcinogen.




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