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The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, released an advisory calling for a cancer risk warning on alcoholic beverages.

“Given the conclusive evidence on the cancer risk from alcohol consumption and the Office of the Surgeon General’s responsibility to inform the American public of the best available scientific evidence, the Surgeon General recommends an update to the Surgeon General’s warning label for alcohol-containing beverages to include a cancer risk warning,” Murthy said in the advisory Friday.

Murthy described alcohol as a “well-established, preventable cause of cancer.” 

He said that alcohol is “responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States — greater than the 13,500 alcohol-associated traffic crash fatalities per year in the U.S. — yet the majority of Americans are unaware of this risk.”