Seda

You certainly sound like a "non-drinker" to me with less than one drink a week. Don't worry about being "blasted" for such an innocent query - it's only posters like myself who unabashedly encourage drinking despite Oral Cancer that elicit the puritanical admonishments - but then I just read them while putting some wine or beer down my G tube and laugh out loud As I posted in an earlier thread:
[quote]My personal reason for drinking is exquisitely simple, I have always had a Dionysian personality instead of Apollonian. Or as the french say:"Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler"[/quote]

On the medical front, each and every one of my doctors at the CCC felt that one beer or one glass of wine a day was an insignificant medical risk, Their only caveat was not to drink alcohol if it "burned".

Do I think Alcohol was the cause of my cancer? Heck no. HPV+ and my immune system just conspired to betray me. My father was a real drinker plus had smoked when younger yet when had zero oral cancer his entire life. I bugged the heck out of my doctors the first time around about guilt over my drinking habits until they pointed out that either they drank the same amount or their friends in medical school drank even more yet not one of them or their friends had oral cancer. Sadly, people like you prove that just not drinking does not guarantee protection from this terrible cancer.
Of course, I was raised Catholic back when the Irish priests always pointed out the special significance of Jesus' first miracle being turning water into wine. No grape juice at our Communions.
Charm