Relation between Hot Tea and Cancer

Doctors studied dietary habits for nearly half a million people between the ages of 30 and 79 years, and for nine years, they discovered 1731 cases of esophageal cancer due to drinking hot tea

Smoking, hot tea and alcohol increase the risk of esophageal cancer according to study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine .

The researchers found that esophageal cancer was 5 times more frequent among those who drank hot drinks and at least 15 grams of alcohol, and that the disease was twice as common among hot tea lovers with smoking.