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The association of beer drinking with cancer of the rectum was investigated in a case-control study of male and 88 female rectal cancer cases and male and female controls. Information was obtained on consumption of beer, wine, and hard liquor throughout adulthood quantity and duration , as well as on smoking and sociodemographic characteristics. Beer intake was not significantly associated with estimated risk of rectal cancer in females but was in males, with an increasing gradient in the odds ratio OR with increasing beer consumption. For drinkers of 32 or more ounces of beer per day, the OR was 3. No association was seen with duration of beer drinking. Wine and hard liquor consumption showed no association with the development of rectal cancer. In multiple logistic regression analyses, the relative risk for beer drinking was reduced slightly when potential confounding variables were included in the model RR adjusted for religion and education: 2.
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The insertion of foreign objects into the rectum intestinum of Homo sapiens is nothing new. As you'll remember from history class, the Maya administered tobacco and hallucinogenic enemas for religious purposes, and also probably because they were bored. They were kind enough to leave behind stone reliefs and figurines documenting the deed—now we use web videos and blogs for similar purposes.