[mohawk]

Go to Google Scholar and type in the paper's title - often there will be a link to a publically available copy of the pdf, such as is the case for reference 1.

And you sound like you made up your mind before even really digging into the literature. Your first job as a scientist is to not fool yourself.

[scottLobster]

I did exactly that actually. The only link to the study I could find in 5 minutes of searching is paywalled. I'm not going to pay $31.50 just to make a point on HN.

[mohawk]

http://www.lunaliving.org/pdf/global-burden-of-disease-and-i...

The link is on the right next to the google scholar search results.

[bonniemuffin]

Based on the tables in this paper, alcohol-caused cancer is responsible for 0.8% of deaths. I don't see how the numbers in the paper could be used to calculate a value of 4% for any statistic related to alcohol+cancer.

[Someone]

I read it as 0.8% of all deaths, not of only the deaths caused by cancer. I think that is the most logical reading.

If that's correct, I get at that 4% this way: according to https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cance..., about 20% of all deaths are caused by cancer.

If, of that 20%, 0.8% is caused by alcohol-induced cancer, 4% of all deaths caused by cancer are caused by alcohol-induced cancer.

[zo1]

I think the confusing part is trying to click on the "result". The PDF link is usually on the right, next to the title.