Utrecht, March 30th Alcohol advertising. Your child sees more than you think New movie for parents We know from research that children and young people often see alcohol advertising. This can be in the supermarket, when they pass the alcohol shelfs or when they see a price promotion for beer or wine. Sometimes it may … Read More →
Aaron Hendry in Tāmaki Makaurau CBD, where he says alcohol marketing and bottle stores compound the trauma of youth homelessness. As the youth housing service leader for the social development charity Lifewise NZ, Aaron Hendry’s job requires him to deal in complexities. Many of the people he works with face complex issues, and addressing those issues … Read More →
March 12th from SAFER Move. According to “A technical report on the harmful use of alcohol related to cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotional activities, including those targeting youth and adolescents” developed by the World Health Organization, alcohol is “a commodity of concern to public health.” Alcohol marketing methods are expected to boost alcohol expenditure, and … Read More →
Overview Exposure to alcohol marketing increases the acceptability of drinking alcohol, at an earlier age of onset and influences drinking behaviours, including heavy episodic drinking. The digital ecosystem provides opportunities for marketing companies to position increasingly covert advertising. These new advertisements target individual consumers based on the data that has been gathered about them, allowing … Read More →
March 18, 2022 by Megan Cook, Yvette Mojica-Perez & Sarah Callinan. From the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE). A new report has found that alcohol companies rely on people who drink the most for sales, with more than a third of alcohol consumed in Australia drunk by only five per cent of the … Read More →
March 2022 by Emily Nicholls. From the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS). This report examines how No and Low Alcohol (NoLo) beverages are marketed and promoted in the UK and explores how and why consumers drink them. Whilst a more nuanced understanding of the expanding NoLo market and changes in drinking practices is important for … Read More →
Alcohol Action Ireland, March 2022 Alcohol use has historically been more prevalent among men, but today as the gender gap narrows, women are drinking more than previous generations. Alcohol is a leading global factor for early death for young women. According to data published in a global study, Irish women are near the top of … Read More →
In a new analysis published in The Lancet Global Health, Pepita Barlow and colleagues reveal the global scale of alcohol industry attempts to disrupt national public health policies, deploying arguments—many employing motifs used for decades to fight tobacco control—in high-level World Trade Organization (WTO) discussions. The authors found that more than half (55·2%) of the … Read More →
10th March 2022 from The National Tribune. Using novel computational and machine learning methods, researchers from The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) and The University of Queensland (UQ) have started a three-year study to better understand how young people are targeted by alcohol companies via social media. This research comes as investigations by … Read More →
4th March 2022 from Mirage. New research published today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health has found that Australian children are exposed to enormous volumes of alcohol advertising during live sports broadcasts each year. The research analyzed the volume of alcohol ads placed by alcohol companies during sport on free-to-air … Read More →