Lets Be straight Up about the Alcohol Industry ; The Plos Medicine Editions ; May 2011, Volume 8
Move is one of a suite of measures aimed at ‘changing the culture of drinking in Ireland’ 11-11-2019 The Irish Times Tim O’Brien Minister for Health Simon Harris: said Ireland’s relationship with alcohol ‘is not good, damages our health, harms our communities and harms many families’; Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times The first of … Read More →
China’s alcohol industry heads for high-quality development Wim van Dalen, president of EUCAM: “The article below shows that China appears to be giving full scope to the promotion of alcohol use. Given the increasing worldwide concerns about the increase in alcohol consumption, it is at least surprising that the Chinese alcohol industry appears to get … Read More →
It’s the first liquor brand to sell via ads in Instagram Stories By Ann-Marie Alcántara News from adweek.com For anyone looking to have a Thirsty Thursday—or any other day of the week—Patrón has become the first liquor brand you can order via Instagram. The 30-year-old brand is working with MikMak, a social video commerce agency, … Read More →
A Massey University researcher is calling for an international convention to control alcohol marketing similar to the one that has been used to help reduce tobacco harm worldwide. As the global alcohol industry relies on unhealthy heavy drinking for the majority of their profits, the author says the industry often opposes effective health interventions like … Read More →
The Guardian, Alex Hern and Frederik Hugo Ledegaard; 9 okt. 2019 Exclusive: algorithm may expose thousands of under-18s to harmful targeted adverts Facebook has marked hundreds of thousands of children as “interested in” adverts about gambling and alcohol, a joint investigation by the Guardian and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation has found. The social network’s advertising … Read More →
15 October 2019; www.stap.nl Today it was announced that there will be again a Holland Heineken House in Tokyo during the 2020 Olympic Games. This time it will be part of TeamNL Tokyo Center, a temporary Holland pavilion, where Dutch companies can present themselves during the Games in Japan. Heineken continues to organize in Holland … Read More →
Firms and bodies are casting doubt on health advice for expecting women to abstain from drinking The Guardian Denis Campbell Health policy editor Mon 14 Oct 2019 Alcohol firms and bodies they fund are encouraging women to drink in pregnancy – putting their unborn child in danger – by publishing false and misleading information about … Read More →
Emmi Kauppila chronicles the initial findings of the world’s first case study in online alcohol marketing regulation 09 October 2019 – The past decade has seen a rapid development in digital advertising. Social media has become an important marketing platform for the alcohol industry and research has established that alcohol brands not only use social … Read More →
The Lancet Published: October 05, 2019DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32265-2 Russians are officially drinking less and, as a consequence, are living longer than ever before: life expectancies reached an historic peak in 2018—almost 68 years for men and 78 years for women—according to a WHO report examining the effects of alcohol control measures on … Read More →