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Alcohol: Good Or Bad' Alcohol: Good or Bad Alcoholism can kill in many different ways, and in general, people who drink regularly have a higher rate of deaths from injury, violence, and some cancers. The earlier a person begins drinking heavily, the greater their chance of developing serious illnesses later on. Any protection that occurs with moderate alcohol intake appears to be confined to adults over 60 who have risks for heart disease. Adults who drink moderately (about one drink a day) have a lower mortality rate than their non-drinking peers, their risk for untimely death increases with heavier drinking. Alcohol may not cause cancer, but it does increase the carcinogenic effects of other substances, such as cigarette smoke. Daily drinking increases the risk for lung, gastric, pancreatic, colorectal, urinary tract, liver, brain cancers, and leukemia. About 75% of cancers of the esophagus and 50% of cancers of the mouth, and throat are attributed to alcoholism. (Wine poses less danger for these cancers than beer or hard liquor.) Smoking combined with drinking enhances risks for most of alcohol, risk, drinking, drink, alcoholism, alcoholic, children, cancers, parents, one, liver, increases, higher, effects, body, people, life, increase, driving, cause, beverages, abuse, women, violence, serious, rate, over, mental, less, influence, even, depression, damage, cancer, brain