Booze schmooze: The alcohol industry, frazzled by headwinds, wields its power behind the scenes ^76.8%

STAT - By Isabella Cueto, Lev Facher - 7/1/2026, 8:30 AM

Negativity Bias 79.4% - Biased Writer Voice 69.8% - Confirmation Bias 37.7%

Len Lichtenfeld had a long-overdue apology to make. He was haunted in late 2024 by an exchange with a New York Times reporter almost a decade earlier, during which Lichtenfeld defended the American Cancer Society’s official stance that a drink or two a day was safe, even for cancer prevention. There was mounting evidence to the contrary,... more