Maybe you’re doing dry January — abstaining from alcohol for the first month of the year. A new report from the United States Surgeon General might motivate you to keep that going. It lists alcohol as a leading preventable cause of cancer,

The surgeon general says even if you have one drink once a week over a lifetime your odds cancer risk rises significantly.

This episode of What’s Ahead warns that the Surgeon General is trying to whip up another round of health-related hysteria to further more government control over our lives. In fact, a couple of weeks before,

The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent recommendation to put cancer warnings on alcohol products marks a significant shift in how alcohol is viewed in terms of public health.