Health Canada is funding a new study that will attempt to shed light on drinking habits in the North, and what people know and believe about booze.
The Lithuanian government has unveiled new policy measures aimed at tackling alcohol-related harm, including increasing the legal age for buying and consuming alcoholic drinks.
Lithuania is among the countries with the highest per capita consumption of alcohol in Europe, according to the World Health Organisation.
A lobby group representing Irish alcoholic drinks manufacturers and suppliers has warned that almost 18,000 jobs nationwide worth an estimated €413 million in wages in Cork would be affected by minimum pricing on alcohol.
Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) wants government to stop increasing taxes on beer and instead focus more on the bigger challenge of tackling illicit alcohol, which denies government revenue.
GOA, India — An increasingly hard-line view on alcohol in India is threatening sales for global spirits makers as a new ruling forces many local sellers to shut down or adapt.
Plans by international drinks firms to use Ireland to trial and launch new alcohol brands may be hampered by the proposed Public Health Alcohol Bill, a new study has warned.
ABA said that the calls are off the mark and that the advertising content used as the basis for such calls amounts to scaremongering.
A graphic Australian advertisement that highlights the link between alcohol and cancer has been nominated by drinkers as the most effective in leading them to reconsider their alcohol intake.
The Food and Health Bureau has proposed amending existing laws to prohibit the sale of alcohol to people under aged 18.
A whopping 45 new distilleries registered last year, bringing the total in the UK to an estimated 273 distilleries.