Carolyn Crist September 28, 2017 (Reuters Health) – YouTube videos that depict alcohol brands favored by youth draw millions of views, making them a form of promotion that could encourage underage drinkers, according to a U.S. study. The videos often resemble traditional ads but may escape public health notice or parental controls, the study … Read More →
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 →
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 →
Council of the European Union Brussels, 24 May 2017 (OR. en) AUDIO 78 DIGIT 150 CONSOM 237 TELECOM 146 CODEC 922 OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS From: General Secretariat of the Council On: 24 May 2017 To: Delegations No. prev. doc.: 8939/17 AUDIO 61 DIGIT 123 CONSOM 182 TELECOM 108 CODEC 745 No. Cion doc.: 9479/16 … 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 →
Alcohol Marketing during the UEFA EURO 2016 Football Tournament: A Frequency Analysis International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Richard I. Purves 1,* , Nathan Critchlow 1, Martine Stead 1, Jean Adams 2 and Katherine Brown 3 1 Institute for Social Marketing and UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences … Read More →