We drink tea regularly but if we take hot tea it may burn our lips, tongue etc but a new study is alarming. It states that drinking tea when it is too hot may increase the risk of esophageal cancer in those who smoke cigarettes and consume alcohol daily, a new study warns. However, tea aficionados do not have many reasons to worry as the researchers found that in the absence of both excessive alcohol consumption and smoking, daily tea drinking was not associated with esophageal cancer risk.
"Drinking hot tea contributed to cancer only when it clustered with smoking and drinking alcohol excessively," lead author, Professor at Peking University in Beijing was quoted as saying by CNN. Esophageal cancer kills approximately 400,000 people every year, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, cancer research arm of the World Health Organization. For the study, the…
