ISLAMABAD: Smokers and drinkers should avoid hot tea as it can increase therisk of esophageal cancer, said a study.
According to the study published in the journal Annals of InternalMedicine, the cancer, which starts in the esophagus, was already known tobe linked to smoking, but those risks are heightened by the addition ofdaily cups of “burning hot” tea, scientists discovered.
The risks to smokers also increase with high-temperature tea drinking, saidthe study, which examined data on 456,155 Chinese adults ages 30 to 79.
Lv Jun, of Peking University Health Science Centre in China, whoco-authored the study, told The Telegraph: “Boiling hot tea will harm thecells in the oesophagus. “If the person also smokes, then the harm causedwill be more heightened.”
At the start of the study, none of the participants had cancer. Researchersfollowed half of the participants for at least nine years.
During the study, 1,731 people developed esophageal tumors. – APP