Donald Henderson, the head of public health in Scotland has pleaded for the alcohol industry to withdraw its court case against the Scottish government’s plan to introduce minimum unit pricing. Henderson asked instead to wait five years for the pioneering policy to complete its trial. At the sixth European Alcohol Policy Conference in Brussels last … Read More →
Martina Anderson, Member of the European Parliament for the Northern Ireland party Sinn Féin has called for a ban on alcohol advertising in the European Union. Ms Anderson made the call during Awareness Week on Alcohol Related Harm. “The European Union is the highest drinking region in the world resulting in huge level of harm, … Read More →
Speaking at the House of Lords, Labour peer Lord Brooke accused ministers of bowing to pressure from the alcohol industry. According to Lord Brooke a bill which is currently going through the House of Lords aims to remove the law that presently prohibits the sale of alcohol to children in the form of food. Baron … Read More →
A new study has been published on the effects of alcohol marketing bans. The Cochrane Systematic Literature Study by Siegfried et al. found it could not recommend for or against banning alcohol advertising, but the authors would compel Governments that are considering implementing alcohol advertising bans, to implement their ban in a research environment and … Read More →
Author: Avalon de Bruijn, Carina Ferreira-Borges, Rutger Engels & Megha Bhavsar Title: Monitoring outdoor alcohol advertising in developing countries: Findings of a pilot study in five African countries Journal: African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies 13.1 (2014). Abstract This paper aims to describe alcohol advertising in the public arena of Gambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria and Uganda. Analyses on the … Read More →
Author: Marina Bosque-Prous, Albert Espelt, Anna M. Guitart, Montserrat Bartroli, Joan R. Villalbí, M. Teresa Brugal
Title: Association between stricter alcohol advertising regulations and lower hazardous drinking across European countries
Journal: Addiction. 2014:n/a-n/a. … Read More →
Authors: Craig S. Ross, Avalon de Bruijn and David Jernigan Title: Do time restrictions on alcohol advertising reduce youth exposure? Journal: Journal of Public Affairs Volume 13, Issue 1, pages 123–129, February 2013 Abstract: Regulators may attempt to reduce youth exposure to alcohol advertising by restricting times during which alcohol ads may be aired on … Read More →
De Bruijn and Van den Broeck (2011) have developed a framework to evaluate the effectiveness of existing alcohol marketing regulations and have used this to analyse which European countries have the best and worst regulations. Key points of the fact sheet are: • Effective alcohol marketing regulations are an essential control measure in a comprehensive alcohol … Read More →