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Read the article about how alcohol affects men’s health.
Alcohol is not an ordinary commodity. It has been part of human civilization for thousands of years, and while it is linked with connotations of pleasure and sociability in the minds of many, its use also has harmful consequences. When a person drinks alcohol, it is absorbed by the stomach, enters the bloodstream, and goes to all the tissues. Most people who have alcohol-related health problems aren’t alcoholics. They’re simply people who have regularly drunk more than the recommended levels for some years. Alcohol’s hidden harms usually only emerge after a number of years. And by then, serious health problems can have developed. A series of diseases are entirely caused by alcohol, such as alcohol dependence and alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
Alcohol consumption also clearly increases the risk of some cancers (including lip, tongue, throat, esophagus, liver, and breast cancer). Depending on the drinking pattern, alcohol can have a damaging or a protective role in the development of diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
The fetus is at risk when the mother consumes alcohol during pregnancy. Effects range from slow growth to birth defects and mental retardation. Maternal drinking can also cause spontaneous abortion or premature birth.
There is also a link between drinking too much alcohol and mental health problems such as depression. Heavy long-term drinking can also risk problems with memory loss. About 2 billion people across the world consume alcoholic drinks.
Alcohol consumption can harm health as well as social relations, but the nature and the severity of the effects depend on both the amount of alcohol consumed over time, and the pattern of drinking.

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