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Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health?
In this work, reduction of alcoholic strength was discussed as a means to reduce consumption and alcohol-attributable harm. Statistical modelling was conducted to (1) estimate its potential for the largest six Western and Central European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK); (2) ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9959344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36839266 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15040910 |
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author | Rehm, Jürgen Rovira, Pol Manthey, Jakob Anderson, Peter |
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description | In this work, reduction of alcoholic strength was discussed as a means to reduce consumption and alcohol-attributable harm. Statistical modelling was conducted to (1) estimate its potential for the largest six Western and Central European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK); (2) calculate the increase in taxation necessary to reach this potential, and (3) estimate the mortality gains achieved with the introduction of no- or low-alcohol beverages in the UK and Spain. The high public health potential of reducing alcoholic strength was demonstrated via modelling a scenario in which the strength of all beverages was reduced by 10%, which would avert thousands of deaths in these six European countries per year. However, methods by which to achieve these gains were not clear, as the alcohol industry has shown no inclination toward reductions in the alcoholic strength of beer, wine, or spirits via a reformulation on a large scale. The increase of excise taxation to achieve the public health gains of such a reduction would result in markedly increasing prices—a situation unlikely to be implemented in Europe. Finally, the introduction of beer and wine with an alcoholic strength below 0.5% led to some substitutions of higher-strength beverages, but did not show a marked public health impact. New taxation initiatives to achieve the potential of a reduction of alcoholic strength will need to be implemented. |
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spelling | pubmed-99593442023-02-26 Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health? Rehm, Jürgen Rovira, Pol Manthey, Jakob Anderson, Peter Nutrients Article In this work, reduction of alcoholic strength was discussed as a means to reduce consumption and alcohol-attributable harm. Statistical modelling was conducted to (1) estimate its potential for the largest six Western and Central European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK); (2) calculate the increase in taxation necessary to reach this potential, and (3) estimate the mortality gains achieved with the introduction of no- or low-alcohol beverages in the UK and Spain. The high public health potential of reducing alcoholic strength was demonstrated via modelling a scenario in which the strength of all beverages was reduced by 10%, which would avert thousands of deaths in these six European countries per year. However, methods by which to achieve these gains were not clear, as the alcohol industry has shown no inclination toward reductions in the alcoholic strength of beer, wine, or spirits via a reformulation on a large scale. The increase of excise taxation to achieve the public health gains of such a reduction would result in markedly increasing prices—a situation unlikely to be implemented in Europe. Finally, the introduction of beer and wine with an alcoholic strength below 0.5% led to some substitutions of higher-strength beverages, but did not show a marked public health impact. New taxation initiatives to achieve the potential of a reduction of alcoholic strength will need to be implemented. MDPI 2023-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9959344/ /pubmed/36839266 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15040910 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Rehm, Jürgen Rovira, Pol Manthey, Jakob Anderson, Peter Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health? |
title | Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health? |
title_full | Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health? |
title_fullStr | Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health? |
title_full_unstemmed | Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health? |
title_short | Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health? |
title_sort | reduction of alcoholic strength: does it matter for public health? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9959344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36839266 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15040910 |
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