He is aiming for a second term, but Emmanuel Macron has already won a close election in early January. The President of the Republic was awarded, in his presence, the Personality of the Year prize at the 2022 Wine Trophies of The French Wine Review. “I must say that it makes me very happy”, confessed on stage the Head of State.
“Choosing you is a challenge, which is more in the middle of an election campaignhad fun for his part Denis Saverot, the editor of the monthly. For the first time in forty years, you, President, have had the audacity to affirm loud and clear, with d’Artagnan, with Portos: “I drink wine every day, noon and evening”. For us, this is the best slogan. »
The five-year term has indeed taken place under the best auspices for the alcohol sector. It was inaugurated in May 2017 with the appointment of Audrey Bourolleau, general delegate of the lobbying organization of the wine industry Vin & Société, as the president’s “agriculture, fishing, forestry and rural development” adviser. A more than reassuring signal for alcohol makers, as the authorities plan to toughen health messages against their products.
Ten short days before the new president’s teams took office, the National Cancer Institute (INCa) and Public Health France (SPF) published an expert opinion which greatly upset the lobbying organization. “It’s not ‘alcohol abuse’ which is at risk, but even low consumption. The current regulatory health warning [“ l’abus d’alcool est dangereux pour la santé ”] is therefore obsolete, concluded the report in particular in view of the state of science. A revisited warning, he suggests, might say: “Any alcohol consumption carries risks to your health. »
Studies actually show that the negative consequences of alcohol set in from the very first drink. A year later, a publication in the renowned medical journal The Lancet will announce that “the safest level of alcohol consumption is: 0”. Each year in France, more than 15,000 cancer deaths are attributable to alcohol. Cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, colon and rectum, breast and liver in particular. So when they launched a cancer prevention campaign in September 2017, the Ministry of Health and INCa recommended “to limit or even avoid the consumption of alcohol”. On the posters, the message aims to reach the public: “Reducing alcohol consumption reduces the risk of cancer. Frankly, it’s not the sea to drink. » But the accompanying T-shaped corkscrew image is worth a declaration of war.
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