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Senate committee hears push to add cancer-risk line to alcohol warnings
Summary
Youth advocates and public-health groups urged the Commerce Committee to add "drinking alcoholic beverages may increase cancer risk" to state-required alcohol warnings; industry groups warned about regulatory burden and asked for implementation clarity.
Senator David Waters introduced Senate Bill 4-17, which would add the phrase "drinking alcoholic beverages may increase cancer risk" to the state's existing alcohol-warning signage.
Waters said the change responds to recent scientific findings, including the 2025 U.S. Surgeon General advisory, and is meant to inform younger drinkers that cancer risk accumulates over decades. "There are many different kinds of cancer...and so it seemed that this would be a…
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