💬 Quoted… “The patients are getting younger. It’s likely some environmental change, whether it’s something in our food, our medications or something we have not yet identified.”

• An ongoing health phenomenon is confusing doctors: more and more young people are being diagnosed with cancer. According to federal data, the cancer diagnosis rate in 2019 for Americans under 50 was 107.8 cases per 100,000 people, up 12.8% from 95.6 in 2000 – while a study published in BMJ Oncology last year reported a sharp global rise in cancers in people under 50, with the highest rates in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. Another not-so-fun fact: the risk of developing some cancers at a young age has increased for each generation born since the 1950s, the WSJ reports. But there is a bright spot when it comes to us treating cancer as a society: the US cancer death rate has dropped by one-third since 1991, thanks to a plunge in smoking and better treatment.

🍸 Stat of the Day: Quick! What’s the best-selling alcohol brand in America by volume? (Hint: it’s not a tequila, whisky, or vodka.) If you said High Noon hard seltzers, you’d be right, per a new report. The pre-made vodka + juice cocktail sold 21.4 million cases in 2023, which equates to $1.5 billion in sales. But while High Noon wins the volume award, Tito’s Vodka deserves the prize for highest sales. The Austin,Texas-based vodka brand sold 12 million cases last year, good for ~$2.5 billion in retail dollars, tops in the industry. (So the next time someone asks to buy you a Titos + soda but can’t hold a conversation, at least you have a couple facts to throw out there.)

🤔 Did You Know?... There were ads in the back of ‘60s and ‘70s comic books that allowed US kids to order a live monkey through the mail🐒.

📰 Worth a Read: Humans can 'smell' each other's emotions — but we don't know how → (Live Science)