July 23th 2022, Follow the Money The misleading outdated message from the alcohol industry that moderate alcohol consumption makes you live longer eventually ends up with the general practitioner. This is the conclusion from the second article by journalist Petra Wijnsema of Follow-the-Money about the Dutch alcohol prevention policy. The message from the alcohol industry … Read More →
19th July 2022 by Daniel Jones. From Stir, University of Stirling New research from the University of Stirling has highlighted the significant impact that alcohol packaging has on capturing the attention of, and creating appeal amongst, young people. Additionally, the research found that packaging helps to shape perceptions of the product, drinker and drinking experience. … Read More →
13 July 2022, Dutch Institute for Alcohol Policy STAP Alcohol producer Heineken has violated the rules of the Dutch Advertising Code for Alcoholic Beverages according to the Advertising Code Committee. The Dutch Institute for Alcohol Policy STAP, raised the complaint after an oversized beer glass was presented to the winner of the Amstel Gold cycle … Read More →
23 June 2022, | World Health Organization ; Technical document Overview The digital ecosystem for tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food marketing is complex and is changing quickly. Understanding the digital ecosystem is essential to being able to make decisions and advise policy-makers on what is needed to ensure that children are safe and not … Read More →
27th June 2022 by Movendi International The Irish government has initiated the process to place health warning labels on all alcohol products. When coming into effect, the new labeling regulations will ensure that no alcohol product can be sold without bearing a warning that informs the public that: – drinking alcohol causes liver diseases – … Read More →
New report of the World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe. (2022). Understanding the digital media ecosystem: how the evolution of the digital marketing ecosystem impacts tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food marketing. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/355277. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
A recent study by Jones et al. (2021), aimed to explore how alcohol packaging, messaging and warnings could raise awareness, engagement and response to health information. By conducting eight focus groups with current drinkers, results show that unaided recall of some health information and messaging was high. However, most participants did not attend to or meaningfully … Read More →
Wednesday 15th, 2022 by Stephanie Parnell. From Croakey Health Media Stephanie Parnell, Alcohol Policy and Research Coordinator at Cancer Council WA, explains how the marketing of alcohol-health raises questions regarding misinformation. She analyzes how marketing is the one domain where the law should forbid false, misleading and deceptive advertising. Still, we are being constantly exposed … Read More →
23rd May 2022 by sally Casswell. From RNZ. Cross-border marketing is about how alcohol marketing first created and disseminated in one country, spreads across boarders into others. This technique is largely used by multinational corporations striving to increase sales and normalize alcohol as an everyday product. Since much of this (cross-border) alcohol advertising happens on … Read More →
A new study has investigated in-depth inter-relationships between The Miller Brewing Company (MBC) and Phillip Morris (PM), with a particular focus on alcohol policy issues. Through the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents library, the authors traced the evolution of corporate affairs and related alcohol policy oriented functions within and between MBC and PM. Results show that … Read More →