Do things stop being bad for us if we just forget about them for a bit, do you think?”
Oh no, that was a couple of weeks ago smoking's okay now. 2 The press release proclaimed “Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer: the definitive answer.” A reader was driven to complain in the letters page of the Guardian (14 November 2002): “So let me get this right-alcohol's no good anymore, and if you smoked within five years of getting your periods, that's bad news too. However, after they had enjoyed guilt-free drinks (without cigarettes) for only a few days, on 13 November the message was reversed: alcohol did increase the risk of breast cancer after all, but smoking was declared innocent. 1 The bad news was that smoking at an early age was now implicated as a risk factor for breast cancer.
On 4 October 2002, women who were moderate drinkers received good news: their risk of breast cancer was not raised, according to a report in the Lancet that was widely covered by the British media.
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