Balance Consumer Interests and Health and Safety Considerations

Identifying and applying best policy practices helps balance competing interests of industry, public health, government and consumers; however, determining the optimal set of policies for a specific jurisdiction is complicated. Governments must assess the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of policies to minimize, and potentially through taxation, mitigate the cost of alcohol-related social and health harms while also ensuring low-risk drinkers have fair and equitable access to alcohol.

Evidence for the Effectiveness of Minimum Pricing of Alcohol: A Systematic Review and Assessment Using the Bradford Hill Criteria for Causality

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  1. Alcohol Policies and Alcohol-Attributable Cancer Mortality in Us States
    Alattas, M, Ross, CS, Henehan, ER and Naimi, TS. Chemico-biological interactions. 315, 108885.
    Date: 2020
  2. Consumer Taxes on Alcohol: An International Comparison over Time
    Anderson, K. . .
    Date: 2020
  3. Alcohol Policies in Us States, 1999–2018
    Blanchette, JG, Lira, MC, Heeren, TC and Naimi, TS. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. 81(1), 58-67.
    Date: 2020
  4. Public Support for Alcohol Control Initiatives across Seven Countries
    Dekker, MR, Jones, A, Maulik, PK and Pettigrew, S. International Journal of Drug Policy. 82, 102807.
    Date: 2020
  5. Workplace Alcohol Prevention: Are Managers' Individual Characteristics Associated with Organisational Alcohol Policy Knowledge and Inclination to Initiate Early Alcohol Interventions?
    Elling, DL, Wennberg, P, Almquist, YB and Sundqvist, K. International Journal of Workplace Health Management. .
    Date: 2020
  6. Alcohol Policies and Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths Involving Blood Alcohol Concentrations Below 0.08%
    Lira, MC, Sarda, V, Heeren, TC, Miller, M and Naimi, TS. American journal of preventive medicine. 58(5), 622-629.
    Date: 2020
  7. Alcohol Policy and Public Health—Contributing to the Global Debate on Accelerating Action on Alcohol
    Parry, CD and Fitzgerald, N. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. .
    Date: 2020
  8. Alcohol Control Policy and Changes in Alcohol‐Related Traffic Harm
    Rehm, J, Manthey, J, Lange, S, Badaras, R, Zurlyte, I, Passmore, J, Breda, J, Ferreira‐Borges, C and Štelemėkas, M. Addiction. 115(4), 655-665.
    Date: 2020
  9. The Monopoly Option: Obsolescent or a “Best Buy” in Alcohol and Other Drug Control?
    Room, R. The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. 34(2), 215-232.
    Date: 2020
  10. National, Regional, and Global Burdens of Disease from 2000 to 2016 Attributable to Alcohol Use: A Comparative Risk Assessment Study
    Shield, K, Manthey, J, Rylett, M, Probst, C, Wettlaufer, A, Parry, CD and Rehm, J. The Lancet Public Health. 5(1), e51-e61.
    Date: 2020
  11. How Did a Lower Drink‐Drive Limit Affect Bar Trade and Drinking Practices? A Qualitative Study of How Alcohol Retailers Experienced a Change in Policy
    Sumpter, C, Mohan, A, McKell, J, Lewsey, J, Emslie, C and Fitzgerald, N. Drug and alcohol review. 39(2), 170-179.
    Date: 2020
  12. Association between State‐Level Alcohol Availability and Taxation Policies on the Prevalence of Alcohol‐Related Harms to Persons Other Than the Drinker in the USA, 2000–2015
    Trangenstein, PJ, Subbaraman, MS, Greenfield, TK, Mulia, N, Kerr, WC and Karriker‐Jaffe, KJ. Drug and alcohol review. 39(3), 255-266.
    Date: 2020
  13. The Composition and Magnitude of Alcohol Taxes in States: Do They Cover Alcohol-Related Costs?
    Blanchette, JG, Chaloupka, FJ and Naimi, TS. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. 80(4), 408-414.
    Date: 2019
  14. Approaches for Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Evidence-Based Legislation, Law Enforcement Strategies, Sanctions, and Alcohol-Control Policies
    Fell, J. Forensic Sci Rev. 31(2), 161-184.
    Date: 2019
  15. Light and Heavy Drinking in Jurisdictions with Different Alcohol Policy Environments
    Foster, S, Gmel, G and Mohler-Kuo, M. International Journal of Drug Policy. 65, 86-96.
    Date: 2019
  16. The Relationship between the Us State Alcohol Policy Environment and Individuals’ Experience of Secondhand Effects: Alcohol Harms Due to Others’ Drinking
    Greenfield, TK, Cook, WK, Karriker‐Jaffe, KJ, Patterson, D, Kerr, WC, Xuan, Z and Naimi, TS. Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research. 43(6), 1234-1243.
    Date: 2019
  17. An Evaluation of the Effects of Lowering Blood Alcohol Concentration Limits for Drivers on the Rates of Road Traffic Accidents and Alcohol Consumption: A Natural Experiment
    Haghpanahan, H, Lewsey, J, Mackay, DF, McIntosh, E, Pell, J, Jones, A, Fitzgerald, N and Robinson, M. The Lancet. 393(10169), 321-329.
    Date: 2019
  18. Global Alcohol Exposure between 1990 and 2017 and Forecasts until 2030: A Modelling Study
    Manthey, J, Shield, KD, Rylett, M, Hasan, OS, Probst, C and Rehm, J. The Lancet. 393(10190), 2493-2502.
    Date: 2019
  19. Ethical Acceptability of Reducing the Legal Blood Alcohol Concentration Limit to 0.05
    Morain, S and Largent, E. American journal of public health. 109(5), 709-713.
    Date: 2019
  20. Associations between Alcohol Policies and Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Pooled Analysis of Gshs and Espad Data
    Noel, JK. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 54(6), 639-646.
    Date: 2019
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