
If the Government is serious about extending healthy life expectancy for all, it must get serious about tackling alcohol. With the Health Disparities White Paper being published soon, IAS’ Dr Alison Giles looks at what should be done. Read more »
If the Government is serious about extending healthy life expectancy for all, it must get serious about tackling alcohol. With the Health Disparities White Paper being published soon, IAS’ Dr Alison Giles looks at what should be done. Read more »
Alcohol content was seen 197.3 million times by children aged under 16 across 20 different reality TV programmes. Dr Barker’s study shows how alcohol content bypasses marketing restrictions on TV. Read more »
Dr Emily Nicholls investigates the marketing and consumption of no and low alcohol products and discusses her new report. Read more »
A major obstacle for public health bodies is challenging powerful transnational alcohol corporations: a story of David and Goliath. Read more »
The amount of Guinness advertising during the 2019 Six Nations was enormous and led to huge exposure of alcohol advertising to children. Dr Barker’s study looks at this exposure and its likely consequences. Read more »
Alex Barker examines the influence of alcohol brands product placement on viewers Read more »
It is time to leave claims of the innocuous goals of alcohol advertising aside and instead treat it with the regulatory attention it requires, says Nason Maani Hessari Read more »
Dr Amanda Marie Atkinson discusses findings of a new IAS-commissioned report exploring the way in which women are both targeted and represented in alcohol marketing, and the possible health and social implications Read more »
Emmi Kauppila chronicles the initial findings of the world’s first case study in online alcohol marketing regulation Read more »
Habib Kadiri wonders if non-alcoholic drinks normalise alcohol branding in areas where they shouldn’t? Read more »
New Zealand study follows the lives of children bombarded with images of alcohol product placement Read more »
Ofcom’s 9pm watershed might not be fit for purpose, argues Alex Barker Read more »
We have the evidence, now we need the political will, writes Dr Simone Pettigrew Read more »
The European Commission recently decided that UK-based broadcasters are allowed to continue circumventing the Swedish alcohol marketing ban on TV Read more »
Just as match fixing presents moral and ethical hazards, so too does taking money from alcohol brands to sponsor the game, says Michael Thorn Read more »
Alcohol industry protests over cancer warning labels backfire Read more »
Matt Damon has an alcohol problem… but it’s not what you think, writes Kristina Sperkova Read more »
Dr Laura Fenton writes about how alcohol is represented in the BBC’s drama series Read more »
Our legislators need to take action and alter our harmful relationship with alcohol, writes Dr Bobby Smyth Read more »
Nijole Gostautaite Midttun describes the controversy surrounding the new alcohol law Read more »
Professor Carwyn Jones argues that industry attempts to resist marketing legislation on ethical grounds must be sidelined in favour of protecting children from harms caused by alcohol Read more »
A blogpost based on BMC Public Health paper ‘Why media representations of corporations matter for public health policy: a scoping review’ Read more »
Following Formula One’s sponsorship deal with Heineken, Eurocare vice-president Lauri Beekmann speculates over the real benefits to the funding of national and global sports for the major alcohol industry players Read more »
The exclusive presence of the Carlsberg brand during this year’s Euro 2016 football tournament provides a ‘perfect opportunity’ to compare alcohol marketing in France with that of the UK, writes Dr Richard Purves Read more »