Alcohol Review - Issue 8, April 30th, 2021

Alcohol Review - Issue 8, April 30th, 2021

Phil Cain Phil Cain

Phil Cain

Writer, journalist, communications consultant. Editor: Alcohol Review, THC Review, Recreation See philcain.com

发布日期: 2021年5月2日
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This week: UK MP calls for alcohol rethink; Australian alcohol megastore halted; Facebook enables marketing to teenagers; Turkey bans alcohol sale in lockdown; Opinion: Ambitious counter-marketing needed... Subscribe for more

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UK Labour MP Dan Carden (pictured) called for independent regulation of alcohol labelling and a dedicated alcohol strategy

Australian supermarket giant Woolworths scrapped a plan for a large alcohol shop near Darwin's airport after lengthy protest

Facebook is accused of harvesting the data of teenagers and on-selling it to advertisers for targeted alcohol ads

Turkey banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in stores for 17 days during the pandemic, a move opposition parties say is unconstitutional and religiously motivated. Some retailers continued selling.

The joke underpinning the film Another Round is nonsense, says the Norwegian psychiatrist whose retelling of it inspired the movie. He has yet to tell Alcohol Review the extent of his work on alcohol

Retailers in Ireland has warned that the rumoured implementation of minimum unit pricing would lead to a surge in cross-border shopping

A initiative launched promote alcohol research cooperation in Ireland and the UK launched, called ACORN

Covid corner

Bars and restaurants in Tokyo’s drinking spot for Japanese salary men are struggling to draw patrons after being asked not to serve alcohol to combat covid

Colorado passed a bipartisan bill to extend to-go alcohol sales for five years

Tennessee lawmakers decided to extend covid lockdown laws allowing to-go alcohol sales

Alcohol-related traffic accidents with casualties have dropped by more than 20,000 in the 10 years since China criminalised drunk driving despite there being 180m more cars on the road

Research

Children undergoing early puberty are more likely to be given alcohol, although their brains are no more mature

Heavy drinking males were more likely to commit violence against their wives and girlfriends if they held sexist rather than egalitarian attitudes about women

Opinion

Greater ambition is needed in developing counter-marketing and other interventions to promote evidence-informed ideas about alcohol

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