A study conducted in India has found that consuming as little as nine grams of alcohol daily can be linked with a 50 per cent higher chance of developing mouth cancer, with the risk sharply rising to 87 per cent for locally brewed liquor.

Researchers from Navi Mumbai’s Center for Cancer Epidemiology, among other institutes in India and International Agency for Research on Cancer, France, analysed 1803 individuals with buccal mucosa (mouth) cancer and 1903 randomly selected healthy people from across five study centres between 2010 and 2021.