Beer brands popular among youth violate code with youth-appealing ads Boston University School of Medicine; Public Release: 5-Oct-2017 Share Alcohol brands popular among underage drinkers are more likely to air television advertisements that violate the industry’s voluntary code by including youth-appealing content, according to a new study by researchers from Boston University School of … Read More →
Sunday Post; 8-10-2017 EVERY child in Scotland has the right to grow up safe from alcohol-related harm. Alison Douglas While every family’s situation is different, children who live with someone who drinks too much say they feel scared, confused, stressed and angry when their parent is drinking. They are also at higher risk of experiencing … Read More →
Authors: Mark Petticrew, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Cécile Knai, Rebecca Cassidy, Nason Maani Hessari, James Thomas, Heide Weishaar Abstract Corporations use a range of strategies to dispute their role in causing public health harms and to limit the scope of effective public health interventions. This is well documented in relation to the activities of the tobacco … Read More →
Calls for tougher regulation of industry and closure of loophole that allows alcohol advertising during televised sport Wednesday 4 October 2017 A leading US expert on alcohol policy, Dr David Jernigan, says the Australian government is failing to use the significant power it has to regulate the alcohol industry to stop its advertisements reaching children. … Read More →
Exposure to alcohol advertising and adolescents’ drinking beliefs: Role of message interpretation. Collins, Rebecca L.,Martino, Steven C.,Kovalchik, Stephanie A.,D’Amico, Elizabeth J.,Shadel, William G.,Becker, Kirsten M.,Tolpadi, Anagha Health Psychology, Vol 36(9), Sep 2017, 890-897 Objective: Recent research revealed momentary associations between exposure to alcohol advertising and positive beliefs about alcohol among adolescents (Martino et al., 2016). … Read More →
Debate Room: Are proposed restrictions on alcohol advertising going too far (Ireland)? The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill restricts ads so they are less likely to glamorize our relationship with alcohol. By Various Wednesday 27 Sep 2017, 6:30 AM Wed 6:30 AM 12,076 Views 75 Comments http://jrnl.ie/3616279 The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill aims to reduce the … Read More →
Amanda Zhou The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sep 21, 2017 When it comes to keeping kids away from alcohol advertisements, education programs and parents have frequently thought of television as the primary source. However, YouTube videos have become a significant contributor of alcohol marketing and in an era of social media and smartphones, parents are often behind … Read More →
Share this: SAAPA: This is wholly inappropriate and counterproductive to public health efforts to address both hunger and substance abuse. SAAPA web site David vs Goliath: Civil society partnership gets SAB to withdraw “Beers for Africa” Published 14. 09 2017 by Dag Endal The South African beer company SAB planned to sell more beer by … Read More →
Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2017, 1–7 doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agx059 Article Predicting Regulatory Compliance in Beer Advertising on Facebook Jonathan K. Noel* and Thomas F. Babor; Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Ave., MC 6325, Farmington, CT USA *Corresponding author: Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of … Read More →
Drug and Alcohol Review (2017) DOI: 10.1111/dar.12596 How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer MARK PETTICREW1 , NASON MAANI HESSARI1 , CÉCILE KNAI1 & ELISABETE WEIDERPASS2,3,4,5 1Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, 2Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, … Read More →