1.	Alcohol – introduction

2.	Consumption of alcohol in the Czech Republic

3.	Illnesses coherent with drinking of alcohol

3.1.	Buccal cavity cancer, cancer of the oesophagus, cancer of the liver

3.2.	Cancer of the colon and the rectum, etc.

4.	Conclusion

"Alcohol, faithfully ethanol or ethyl alcohol, is the most socially accepted addictive drug. Drinking of the alcoholic beverages incur the abuse of alcohol and can have life threatening health hazards as secondary outcome of extremely drinking of alcohol or alcoholism. Nevertheless, it is pleasures are very widely acknowledged, and form a bond of community for the majority of adults, which is unconditionally valid in the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, alcoholic beverages understand as a standard part at social gatherings, and those who refuse to consume alcohol run the risk of being community outcasts. (www.benbest.com)
In the Czech Republic is a consumption of alcohol immoderate high. Consumption of alcohol appurtenant to highest in the world (the Czech is on the third place). In the recent years is the
value around 10 per cent of pure alcohol per one inhabitant and year . This number, for example in 2000, included 8, 3 litres of spirit, 16, 1 litre of wine and full 159, 9 litres of beer per caput and year. Quantitative data from 2004 stating that half of 100 per cent of alcohol is consume in the beer and in the 2005 it was already more than half of 100 per cent. One fifth of the population, it is more than 1, 3 million economic active inhabitants of the Czech, drinking risk or harmful way. Two per cent of the population should be dependence on alcohol, accordance with the carload of drank alcohol. The Czech Republic is the country with the biggest consumption of the beer per one inhabitant in the world. (www.plbohnice.cz)
Highest consumption of alcohol bears number of an economic and social problems, for example, unemployment’s and divorces, and many others seriously health dangerous, for example, cardiovascular disease, chronic pancreatitis or even cancer. Illnesses coherent with drinking of alcohol beverages are a great many, whether is the alcohol primary or secondary factor of the ailment. I would like to speak particularly about peril of the sarcoma. In this case is concerned:
- buccal cavity cancer, "

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University of Kuopio, The Department of Public Health.