The issues
Factsheets
Alcohol and underage drinking
Underage drinking and harmful drinking patterns amongst children and adolescents are a significant problem in a number of European countries. Curbing such trends is a priority for all stakeholders, including governments, public health specialists and the industry. This document aims to provide an effective toolkit to address questions surrounding underage drinking (young people are defined here as being under the legal purchase age).
Alcohol advertising and consumption
Advertising for alcoholic beverages is regularly under government scrutiny. Regulating and reducing the visibility of alcoholic beverages is seen as a convincing public health policy measure to reduce alcohol-related harm. This document aims to provide an effective toolkit to address questions surrounding alcohol advertising and its effects on consumption.
Alcohol taxation, pricing and alcohol-related harm
Most governments levy taxes and excise duties on alcoholic beverages in order to generate revenues. But taxation and pricing policies have also been used as public health tools to influence alcohol consumption, and reduce alcohol-related harm. This document provides a series of proof points, facts and data challenging the effectiveness of taxation as a public health tool, and disputing four public policy myths.
Meaningful consumer information about alcohol
Health Warning Labels (HWL) began to gain popularity amongst policy makers in the US in the 1980s, when local and state legislation pushed for mandatory labelling in an effort to reduce alcohol-related harm. Warnings generally address targeted audiences or contexts: pregnancy, drink driving or operating machinery. This document aims to provide an effective toolkit to address questions surrounding consumer information about alcohol (including, but not limited to, Alcohol Health Warnings).
Last updated 30 June 2011.
