A complaint about irresponsible alcohol advertising has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following a complaint made by the Youth Alcohol Advertising Council, a group of young people working with the charity Alcohol Concern. Heineken UK Ltd has been told their YouTube advert for Strongbow breached responsible advertising regulations. The Youth Alcohol Advertising … Read More →
(only 8 days left) Protect our children from alcohol advertising Scientific research has proven the negative health effects of alcohol consumption (WHO, 2014), as well as that exposure to alcohol advertising leads to advancing the onset of alcohol consumption and increasing the amount consumed, as well as the frequency of consumption (Smith & Foxcroft, 2009,Anderson et … Read More →
The Ghanaian Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has asked the media to ensure that advertisements on food, medicines and cosmetics are prevetted by government authority, before such adverts are aired of published. These include alcohol ads. “A manufacturer or distributor, advertising agent and advertising media and or organisation who advertises a food product without the … Read More →
A German judge has decided that brewers may no longer describe their products as healthy in their marketing and packaging. According to the judge in question this suggests health benefits while obscuring the dangers of alcohol consumption. The court of the district of Ravensburg has set a precedent by prohibiting the Härle brewery from using … Read More →
ANCs draft bill promising to ban alcohol advertising in South Africa may be crossed through after intensive lobbying by the alcohol industry. Instead the political party is now calling for stricter regulations on alcohol outlets. South African newspaper The Saturday Star reports that the alcohol industry’s protests against ANCs plans did not fall on deaf … Read More →
The Constitutional Council has rejected an amendment to the Loi Evin that would potentially have initiated the end of France’s position in the top of the world’s countries with the strongest alcohol marketing restrictions. France’s highest lawmaking body has rejected the amendment, which had already been approved by Parliament, because it deemed the plans to … Read More →
Dr. Pat Kenny, School of Marketing, Dublin Institute of Technology, presenting to the Oireachtas Committee on Health & Children for pre-legislative scrutiny of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 – discussing advertising marketing and raising questions about the real intent of Diageo Role Models. Thanks to @IrelandUnlocked.
Earlier this month the Welsh government published its plans for minimum pricing. The plans are based on research suggesting that a minimum charge of 50p per unit would save nearly £900m over 20 years by cutting crime and illness, with 50 fewer deaths a year. Ministers said they were committed to using their powers to … Read More →
New Canadian research finds crimes, including murders, sexual assaults and drink-driving, dropped 9% over a decade as authorities in British Columbia increased prices by 10%. The conclusions fuel the debate about the need for minimum unit pricing. The research, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, shows crimes, including violent assaults, fell … Read More →
In this video from 2013 David Jernigan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health speaks on US Alcohol Regulation. This video is part of a Youtube series that originally formed one presentation given at the 2013 National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol.