[b]DO you derive joy in consuming the content of the green bottles and other alcohol? If your answer is in the affirmative, then you risk, oral cancer infection.

Alcohol has been fingered as a possible cause of an “alarming” rise in the rate of oral cancers among men and women in their 40s.

Experts say that the number of 40-somethings developing cancers of the mouth, tongue, lip and throat have increased by a quarter in the past 10 years.

Figures produced yesterday by Cancer Research UK showed that since the mid-1990s, the rates of oral cancers have gone up by 28 per cent for men in their 40s and 24 per cent for women.

The charity’s health information manager, Hazel Nunn, said: “These latest figures are really alarming. Around three quarters of oral cancers are thought to be caused by smoking and drinking alcohol.”

Each year, about 5,000 new oral cancers are diagnosed in the United Kingdom and 1,800 people die from the disease.

Don Shenker, chief executive of the charity Alcohol Concern, said: “It’s time we introduced tobacco-style health warnings on alcohol.”

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