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“It doesn’t scare me,” he says, “in fact I rather pity these people, they react in a way that sounds defensive and actually really rather pathetic.”

The survey has identified key areas where misconceptions could be addressed and where lives could be saved.

Almost 30,000 people in 29 countries were questioned and key findings include:

People in high-income countries were the least likely to believe that drinking alcohol increases the risk of cancer. However, cancer risk rises as alcohol intake increases.
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Oil `ran out’ first in 1885, and perhaps another five times since then. Every time, new finds, new technologies and changes in oil use confounded the pessimists.

Oil prices above $140 per barrel seem to encourage the growing belief that we are approaching `peak oil’ and that supply cannot increase any more. But what has changed [...]