How do you feel about this? Alcohol beverages sporting Breast Cancer Ribbon

[tinkinpink84]

Boy scouts sell popcorn. I think they stopped letting them go door to door now :( to dangeruos. my brother sold popcorn and my dad buys all the girl scout cookies he can that time of year. Sometimes i do buy things just for the cause. And if its something awesome and cute or delicious!

[BringontheWonder]

Research supports that alcohol consumption can increase the risk of developing breast cancer. I think charities should be discerning when accepting donations. I would find it tacky if the American Cancer Society accepted a big hunk of cash from Philip Morris. On the other hand, there are so many causes scrambling for funds from scarce resources. If I was in charge of making the decision, it would be a tough call. Do you refuse money on someone else's behalf out of principle when the money could help save lives? I think it would depend on the situation. Personally, I'm not more likely to buy something just because 0.x% of the profits are going to a cause. If I want to support a cause, I send in a check rather than buying a pink pen at Walgreems that stops writing after 2 days.

[BringontheWonder]

i do not buy a product just because it is supporting a cause...... EXCEPT......... girl scout cookies!!!!!

True that. The delicious cause of keeping my taste buds satisfied. Yum for Samoas!

[derketchup]

Research supports that alcohol consumption can increase the risk of developing breast cancer. I think charities should be discerning when accepting donations. I would find it tacky if the American Cancer Society accepted a big hunk of cash from Philip Morris. On the other hand, there are so many causes scrambling for funds from scarce resources. If I was in charge of making the decision, it would be a tough call. Do you refuse money on someone else's behalf out of principle when the money could help save lives? I think it would depend on the situation. Personally, I'm not more likely to buy something just because 0.x% of the profits are going to a cause. If I want to support a cause, I send in a check rather than buying a pink pen at Walgreems that stops writing after 2 days.

It's one thing to accept money from a questionable source. It's an entirely higher ethical dilemma when one puts a label onto something that can cause cancer in order to encourage consumption of said product.

[CW&M Mom]

You can indeed prevent breast cancer, by doing the following:

• monthly self exams
• annual exams with your doctor
• regular exercise
• limiting alcohol intake
• limiting intake of deep fried foods

It's no guarantee, but all of the above actions reduce fatalities associated with breast cancer.

You CANNOT prevent breast cancer with monthly self exams and annual exams with your doctor. You will possibly be able to find a tumor sooner is all...none of that will prevent breast cancer.

and if you have the breast cancer gene...odds are the foods/alcohol and exercise will do squat.


I have a mother who did her regular exams, always had her mammograms and pap smears. Had a clean mammogram...2 months later found a lump.

she has never smoked
she has never drank one drop of alcohol
She exercised religiously every day
She also ate within moderation and was not one that ate a bunch of fatty food and rarely and I mean rarely ever ate out.
she also breast fed all three of her children.


Odds are the only way she could of ever prevented breast cancer would of been to have them both breasts taken off after she had my youngest sister and hope that whatever small remaining breast tissue was left...never went cancerous.

[derketchup]

You CANNOT prevent breast cancer with monthly self exams and annual exams with your doctor. You will possibly be able to find a tumor sooner is all...none of that will prevent breast cancer.

and if you have the breast cancer gene...odds are the foods/alcohol and exercise will do squat.


I have a mother who did her regular exams, always had her mammograms and pap smears. Had a clean mammogram...2 months later found a lump.

she has never smoked
she has never drank one drop of alcohol
She exercised religiously every day
She also ate within moderation and was not one that ate a bunch of fatty food and rarely and I mean rarely ever ate out.
she also breast fed all three of her children.


Odds are the only way she could of ever prevented breast cancer would of been to have them both breasts taken off after she had my youngest sister and hope that whatever small remaining breast tissue was left...never went cancerous.

I am talking about preventing cancer from a medical standpoint, which means not only preventing the onset but also preventing further stages of cancer. So if you catch breast cancer in stage one you therefore prevented stages 2-4.

We're talking about a very complex disease process in very simplistic terms. There are many factors that can cause breast cancer to occur in both the presence and absence of the breast cancer gene, and one of those is drinking alcohol. Another one is taking estrogen-progesterone hormonal birth control pills.

Beyond all of this, encouraging women to drink alcohol to supposedly "prevent" breast cancer is moronic. I know a woman who died of lung cancer who never smoked. That doesn't mean that cigarette companies should put lung cancer ribbons on their cigarettes in order to encourage people to "contribute towards lung cancer awareness".

[CW&M Mom]

I am talking about preventing cancer from a medical standpoint, which means not only preventing the onset but also preventing further stages of cancer. So if you catch breast cancer in stage one you therefore prevented stages 2-4.

We're talking about a very complex disease process in very simplistic terms. There are many factors that can cause breast cancer to occur in both the presence and absence of the breast cancer gene, and one of those is drinking alcohol. Another one is taking estrogen-progesterone hormonal birth control pills.

Beyond all of this, encouraging women to drink alcohol to supposedly "prevent" breast cancer is moronic. I know a woman who died of lung cancer who never smoked. That doesn't mean that cigarette companies should put lung cancer ribbons on their cigarettes in order to encourage people to "contribute towards lung cancer awareness".

YUP mom never took BC pills either...and actually some doctors say bc pills when you eliminate your periods actually helps prevent estrogen fed bc

In the end...they found it in my mother relatively fast...well she found it. (mind you she had had a clean mammogram 2 months earlier) She went through treatment...was cancer free for 8 years...took all her medication religiously.

and now 8 years later the cancer is back growing in her spine and her hips and it is terminal.


I really can't fathom that someone would decide to purchase beer because it had been pinkified. Odds are they were already planning to purchase the beer.

And I already previously noted that I do think pinkifying cigarettes would be absurd.

If you wanna just rip Susan G Komen...I'm right there with ya in thinking they are a lousy "charity" who spend more money on overhead then they do on research.

In the end...I just have to hope that what research has been done keeps my mom alive for a few more years...and maybe I'll be able to covince her to finally get tested for the BC gene...cause her father had colon cancer...which ups her BC risk signficantly....so yay for me. Kind of feel like it's a ticking time bomb. I don't smoke, I don't drink...ect... And in the end I'll probably just lope the buggers off and be done with them so that I can enjoy watching my grandchildren grow up...since my mother is not going to get that same experience.

[jen276here]

This goes in my 'If you disagree, don't buy it' file.