At this point, it would be easier to publish the much shorter list of things we can eat and drink and do that won't kill us.

That hot drinks cause oesophageal cancer has been known since 1998 - I was working in green tea research in the early 2000s and read this article back then. From the abstract:

There were 440 oesophageal cancer deaths during the period from January 1966 to December 1981. Person-years at risk were 3,065,182 in total. Rate ratio and 95% confidence interval adjusted for attained age, prefecture, occupation and sex were (RR (95% CI)): 1.6 (1.2-2.0) for hot tea (drinking green tea at high temperatures) in comparison with not-hot tea (drinking green tea at moderate temperatures); 2.4 (1.8-3.1) for daily (4 times/week or more) alcohol drinking in comparison with non-drinking; and 2.3 (1.7-3.1) for heavy smoking (15 cigarettes/day or more) in comparison with non-smoking.

So they found that hot tea increased the risk by 1.2-2 times, which is not completely out of line with this study - the Japanese study was 220 thousand people, and this one was almost a million, and it's in a different country at a different time, so there will be other factors.

Common cold beer gang W 😏

Could also means could not

"Very hot" according to the article is 70C (158F). This is well above the human threshold for pain of about 48C (118F).

TLDR; if something hurts, don't do it

Good to know, but what isn't a risk these days? The water is contaminated, the food is riddled and the air is polluted. Life is cancer in 2026.

I'll never understand why anyone would swallow very hot drinks. The article is mostly about that, hot coffee or tea can still be pleasantly warm and fine. But I knew people who drink their coffee painfully hot and... why? To feel ALIVE?

Granted I also don't understand why people smoke or drink alcohol so... eh.

then I shall die cozy

No problem. My tongue makes drinking anything more than slightly warm too painful.

Outside of the holidays I usually drink coldbrew. Nice to know that I’ve been unintentionally protecting myself…

The best part of this is that the researchers give numbers like “6 hot drinks a day”. These patients were literally burning away the lining of their esophagus, inducing cancer through the brute force method of chronic injury and new cell creation. Hot drinks account for 1/7 cases in the UK.

Other risk factors for this type of cancer include smoking and alcohol consumption.