H. Hendriks, B. van den Putte and W.A Gebhardt 2018); Alcoholposts on Social Networks Sites: The Alcoholpost Typology; In: Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking Volume 21, nr. 7; 463-467. Young people frequently display alcohol-related posts (‘‘alcoholposts’’) on social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram. Although evidence exists that such posts may be linked with … Read More →
Alcohol marketing in the Americas and Spain during the FIFA World Cup Tournament; Jonathan K. Noël, Thomas Babor, Katherina Robaina, Melissa Feulnes, Alan Vendrame & Maristela Monteiro (2016); In : Addiction, 112 (Suppl. 1), 64-73 Background and aims To identify the nature of visual alcohol references in alcohol advertisements during televised broadcasts of the 2014 … Read More →
EJPH Alcohol industry corporate social responsibility initiatives and harmful drinking – a systematic review; Melissa Mialon, Jim McCambridge Department of Health Sciences, University of York Correspondence: Jim McCambridge, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, ARRC Building, Heslington, York; YO10 5DD, UK, Tel: +44 1904321667, e-mail: jim.mccambridge@york.ac.uk Background: There is growing awareness of the detrimental … Read More →
Health Promotion Research Centre; NUI Galway; November 2015 Alcohol is not just an ordinary consumer product. While it can form part of a balanced social life, alcohol can also lead to a myriad of serious health and social problems. Given the significant personal and societal costs of alcohol misuse, one key objective of public health … Read More →
Alcohol marketing, promotion and sponsorship are widespread in most of the world today. Alcohol marketing is evolving constantly and utilizes multiple channels, including youth-oriented radio, television, sports events and popular music concerts, websites, social media, mobile phones and product placements in movies and TV shows. Marketers are moving increasingly to digital and social media, where … Read More →
Powerpoint presentation; Institute of Alcohol Studies Prepared for Alcohol Policy Network, November 2016. Presentation
Full article Aims The alcohol beverage industry has been expanding its corporate social responsibility and other business activities in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of these activities on the physical, economic, psycho- logical and social availability of alcohol in the region. Methods Narrative review. Source materials came from … Read More →
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (September 7, 2017) – Alcohol Justice is reporting the release of a new study in the UK showing that the alcohol industry (AI) is misrepresenting evidence about the alcohol-related risk of cancer with activities that have parallels with those of the tobacco industry. The new research is published in the journal Drug … Read More →
The alcohol industry have attempted to position themselves as collaborators in alcohol policy making as a way of influencing policies away from a focus on the drivers of the harmful use of alcohol (marketing, over availability and affordability). Their framings of alcohol consumption and harms allow them to argue for ineffective measures, largely targeting heavier … Read More →
The strategies of alcohol industry SAPROs: Inaccurate information, misleading language and the use of confounders to downplay and misrepresent the risk of cancer. Authors: Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani Hessari, Cécile Knai, Elisabete Weiderpass We start by summarising our core findings, to contextualise the rest of our response. These are that alcohol industry social aspects/public relations … Read More →