The UK’s national charity Alcohol Concern is calling for the regulation of alcohol marketing to be statutory and independent of the alcohol industry. This comes after a new report has shown how big alcohol companies cannot be trusted to promote moderate drinking. The report ‘Creating customers’ looks at how the major alcohol producers are constantly … Read More →
EUCAM was recently contacted with legal questions by a company starting up a scheme like this in Poland. Apparantly this is not just a US problem anymore.
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 →
AB Inbev beer Stella Artois is the first beer company to advertise on photo based social network site Instagram. The ‘Give Beautifully’ campaign is aimed to bolster sales this holiday season and will run exclusively on US Instagram profiles. An insightful article on The Drum describes how after such brands as Bacardi and Corona Stella … 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 →
In 2014 the Australian Alcohol Policy Coalition commenced work on an alcohol policy roadmap project, examining the current state of alcohol law and policy in Victoria, and looking at areas for law reform and policy development, with the overall goal of reducing alcohol related harm in the state.
In the first phase of this project, the APC are examining state powers to limit advertising exposure to children and young people, the impact of planning laws on alcohol policy, the ways in which planning laws can be improved to reduce alcohol related harm and national model laws on secondary supply.
As part of this project, they have produced a series of podcasts on the three current focus areas: advertising, planning law and secondary supply. This is the first podcast, Alcohol marketing and young people: David Jernigan, PhD, Director of The Centre on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
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 →
The Russian Ministry Communications has said it’s willing to lift the ban of alcohol marketing in newspapers and magazines. Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media Alexei Wolin first spoke of this option at recent congress of the National Association of Broadcasters. This new stance is surprising as the alcohol marketing ban was only introduced … Read More →
Our friends at EUROCARE have published an open letter to Jean Todt President of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile stating the organization and its member NGOs’ distress over Todt’s failure to ban alcohol branded sponsorship from Formula One racing: Brussels 12.11.2014 I am writing to you on behalf of the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare), an alliance … Read More →