the now-former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for new cancer warning labels on alcohol-containing beverages ... Indeed, when Congress decided to first label cigarette packages in ...

Alcoholic drinks should carry a label ... alcohol while pregnant can cause birth defects and that it can impair judgment when operating machinery. These appear in small print on the back of ...

Any effort to add a cancer warning label to alcohol would face significant push back from a well-funded and powerful beverage industry, which spends nearly $30 million every year lobbying Congress.

Murthy’s advisory comes as research and evidence mounts about the bad effects that alcohol has on human health, but his proposal for a label would require a rare approval from the U.S. Congress.