Public health action by governments and the promotion of healthy lifestyles could prevent as many as one third of cancers worldwide. This Strategy supports the full implementation of the recommendations of the Review of the National Health Promotion Strategy, the Strategic Task Force on Alcohol and the National Task Force on Obesity. It makes additional recommendations in relation to tobacco, alcohol, nutrition and physical activity, and also in relation to risk reduction from ultraviolet radiation and radon.

P.28. High consumption of alcoholic beverages increases the risk of cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, liver and breast. In the last decade, Ireland has had the largest increase in alcohol consumption among EU15 countries

P.29–30: Smoking recommendations
P.30: Alcohol recommendations