Hot tea raises cancer risk for smokers and drinkers

[Mr Quatro]

Some like it hot — but let that steaming cup of tea cool off before sipping if you smoke cigarettes or consume more than one alcoholic beverage a day.

According to a study by Chinese researchers, the Annals of Internal Medicine warns that drinking tea at very high temperatures — “hot” or “burning hot” — is “associated with an increased risk for esophageal cancer when combined with excessive alcohol or tobacco use.”

Tobacco and alcohol are known risk factors for cancer of the esophagus — the tube that carries food from your mouth to your stomach. The ten-year Chinese study factored in tea drinking. Participants included 450,000 people aged 30 to 79 across ten different regions in China.

Subjects who reported drinking hot or burning hot tea every day and who also drank more than one alcoholic beverage daily had a 127% increased risk of esophageal cancer. Daily tea drinkers who consumed it at a hot or burning hot temperature and smoked had a 56% higher risk of developing esophageal cancer.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.3802903

I don't drink hot tea or drink alcoholic beverages, but I know some of y'all do