Reply #6: I don't know that I would have ever specifically imagined cancer...

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...as a risk from drinking a very hot beverage, but like someone else said in this thread, I'm left thinking "Poke in eye with sharp stick raises risk of blindness".

I'm amazed when I try a tiny sip of something which I discover to be way too hot, mouth-damaging hot, and then I see someone else with a cup of tea or cocoa or coffee or whatever from the same very hot source casually chug back a huge gulp of the same thing as if their mouth and esophagus were lined with asbestos.

Is it machismo?
Is it nerve damage from have already burned themselves many times before?