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db‘s round up of drinks headlines that should be on your radar.

Researchers at Cambridge and Liverpool universities claim that deadly fibres used to fine beer in the 1970s could be behind a rise in gullet cancer cases, reports Metro.

In the Independent, Tola Fisher makes a case for why drinking alcohol could soon be as frowned-upon as smoking.

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At the other end of the spectrum, research database JSTOR claims that alcohol makes us more social.