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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Alcohol News - 15/2023


ERR News (Estonia) - Alcohol and tobacco excise duties increase rate should be known by summer
Estonia's incoming government coalition also wants to raise excise duties on tobacco and alcohol, starting in 2024.
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Independent Herald - The dangers of alcohol
Millions of Americans — including many Scott Countians — enjoy a drink with their meal, or when socializing with friends and family.
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News Medical - Male alcohol consumption before conception causes facial growth defects in offspring
According to the U.S. Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects in their unborn child.
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PsyPost - Research reveals link between alcohol and poorer visual perspective taking
Being in the presence of alcohol beverages may make it harder to take another’s perspective and heavier alcohol consumption may be linked to difficulties with visual perspective taking, according to new research published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
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News Medical (USA) - Study reveals substantial decline in alcohol screening rates during the first COVID-19 surge
New research from Boston Medical Center found that alcohol screening rates dropped substantially during the first COVID-19 surge.
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The Conversation (Australia) - Australia’s system of taxing alcohol is ‘incoherent’, but our research suggests a single tax rate isn’t the answer
The best word to describe the way Australia taxes alcoholic drinks is “incoherent”. It was the word used by the 2010 Henry Tax Review to describe a system in which some wine effectively faces no alcohol tax, expensive wine is taxed heavily and cask wine lightly, beer (but not wine) is taxed by alcohol content, brandy is taxed less than other spirits, and cider is taxed differently to beer.
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Psychology Today - The New A-Word: Should We Stop Using the Word 'Alcoholic'?
For centuries, the word “alcoholic” has been used to refer to people who have difficulties with their drinking.
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Stuff (New Zealand) - Alcohol and Sport: Should Kiwi sports grounds go alcohol-free like Qatar World Cup stadia?
As the peak sporting viewing season approaches should New Zealand’s sporting grounds be looking at the Qatar World Cup experience and going alcohol-free?
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IamExpat in Germany (Germany) - Majority of Germans support a ban on advertising alcohol
Everyone knows that Germans love beer. But according to the results of a recent poll by the German government’s drug czar, they don’t want anyone to tell them to love it.
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Mirage News (USA) - High Prevalence of Alcohol, Opioid Use in Crohn’s Disease Patients in U.S
Newly diagnosed people with Crohn’s disease (CD) in the United States are more likely to experience drug and alcohol use compared with the general population, according to a recent study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers.
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New York Post (USA) - Boston weighs banning tiny bottles of alcohol
The city of Boston is considering a possible ban on miniature liquor bottles, known to Bostonians as “nips” and to others across the country as “minis” or “shooters,” due to the amount of waste they add to the city.
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Vancouver Is Awesome (Canada) - Counting the cost of substance use — and finding solutions
Harms from substance use cost Canada $49 billion in 2020, with almost two-thirds of that linked to alcohol and tobacco use, according to the Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms report with collected data from 2007 to 2020.
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Canadian Public Health Association - Big Alcohol and the Commercial Determinants of Health: What can public health do?
The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) are “the strategies and approaches the private sector uses to promote products and choices that are detrimental to health”.
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Greenhouse Treatment Center (USA) - Movement Builds for Cancer Warning Labels on Alcohol
Did you know the last time alcohol warning labels were adjusted was in 1989? This was also the first time the government implemented them. Now, over 30 years later, alcohol warning labels remain the same.
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IAS Blog - How the alcohol and gambling industries frame harm in the same way
Regulating unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) – for example the tobacco, alcohol, gambling and ultra-processed food industries – is complex, at least partly due to their corporate political activity (CPA).
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AlcoholAndCancer.eu (EU) - Alcohol-attributable cancer deaths cost European economies billions in lost productivity
A recent study conducted by Rumgay, H., Ortega-Ortega, M., Sharp, L., Lunet, N., & Soerjomataram, I. (2023) and published in Cancer Epidemiology reveals that alcohol consumption led to more than 23,300 premature cancer deaths in the EU, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK in 2018, resulting in €4.58 billion in lost productivity.
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NordAN (Sweden) - Fewer Swedes Think It's Wrong to Drive After Drinking a Glass of Wine
A recent IQ survey shows that only 72% of Swedes believe it's wrong to drive after having a glass of wine or beer. This number has dropped significantly from 88% in 2010.
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