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Boniface, S, Atkinson, AM, Critchlow, N, Jones, M, Meadows, B and Severi, K (2021) UK alcohol marketing regulation is failing: a new approach is needed to prioritise protection for all. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy. ISSN 0968-7637
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This commentary about alcohol marketing regulation in the UK draws on a conference held by the Institute of Alcohol Studies, highlighting a need for policy interventions to prevent harm and improve public health. Hazardous and harmful alcohol use is associated with many health conditions, wider social consequences, and harms to others. Following no improvement in alcohol mortality rates in the past decade, 2020 saw alcohol-specific deaths rise to record levels in the UK. Bans or comprehensive restrictions on alcohol advertising across multiple types of media are listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the ‘best buy’ policies to reduce alcohol harm. The UK’s current complaints-led self-regulatory approach fails to protect consumers and vulnerable groups from being exposed to influential alcohol marketing. There are few meaningful sanctions to deter brands and companies from violating existing codes, processes are retrospective, reactive and slow, and the codes fail in their stated aim of protecting young people. Other important impacts on heavier drinkers and those in recovery, as well as on gender and health equity, are also inadequately addressed. Innovation is also urgently needed to effectively regulate ever-evolving digital alcohol marketing. Addressing these issues through a combination of comprehensive restrictions, content controls, labelling, and replacing self-regulation with an independent body will benefit public health as well as protecting the vulnerable, including heavier drinkers, people in recovery, and children and young people.
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy. Sadie Boniface, Amanda M. Atkinson, Nathan Critchlow, Michaela Jones, Beth Meadows & Katherine Severi (2021) UK alcohol marketing regulation is failing: a new approach is needed to prioritise protection for all, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, DOI: 10.1080/09687637.2021.2019682. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1605 Policy and Administration |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5410 Marketing. Distribution of Products R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Public Health Institute |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
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| Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2022 11:55 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Dec 2022 00:50 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1080/09687637.2021.2019682 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16190 |
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