As the new (kind of ) Scot Gov plans how it’s going to prevent poor health, this new research should help their thinking on alcohol marketing restrictions.
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For #BigAlcohol - the #WorldCup is a big chance to push alcohol to children and young people, as well as cement the curious relationship between alcohol & sport.
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Alcohol Focus Scotland
With the World Cup kicking off, Sam O'Brien West shares his experience of alcohol and football. Drinking from age 14, often the drunkest in the room. Now 3 years sober, he reflects on what changed.
"I still feel the same euphoria when somebody scores."
Alarming FOI reveals arrests at Edinburgh Airport have doubled in three years, from 42 in 2023 to 84 last year. Antisocial behaviour offences doubled too.
Airports remain largely exempt from the licensing rules that apply everywhere else. That needs serious reconsideration...
At least 62 diseases are entirely caused by alcohol and dozens more are partly caused by it.
A new review from Harvard researchers, published in Addiction, brings together some of the latest evidence on alcohol and health. Crucially, many of these harms can be slowed by cutting down or stopping
Thanks to @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social for raising this important point during the Summer of Sport debate. The Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow is a huge opportunity - normalising alcohol brands as part of that isn't the legacy Scottish sport needs.
Sober or sober-curious? One football fan shares his tips for having a great alcohol-free World Cup.
Dozens of diseases are attributable to alcohol consumption—but many can be slowed or reversed by cutting down on or quitting drinking, according to a new review co-authored by researchers at Harvard…
Ireland was set to introduce world first alcohol health labels yesterday. After intensive industry lobbying (including seven ministerial meetings in four months) the government delayed them until 2028...
via @sheilagilheany.bsky.social on the familiar pattern of industry influence on policy.
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A report claims 80% of ill health in old age is individual responsibility. Public health experts quoted in the article disagree, pointing to poverty, corporate influence and policy failures as key determinants.
The report itself calls for alcohol legislation - undermining its own headline claim.
With 1179 alcohol-specific deaths in 2024, Scotland faces a public health emergency. Yet the ministerial portfolio has expanded from Alcohol & Drugs to include Mental Wellbeing, Public Health, and Sport - raising concerns that alcohol harm is being downgraded as a priority
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Disposable vapes were banned to help protect children from products with bright colours and fruit flavours. Now the alcohol industry launches 99p alcopop shots in bright colours and fruit flavours, claiming they're for adults 🤔 ...
Sound familiar?
Same playbook, different product.
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Arrests at Scotland's busiest airport have hit 84 in a single year as alcohol-fuelled incidents surge, it sparked calls for tougher restrictions on alcohol sales at airports to prevent unruly…
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Big Alcohol corporations are turning the 2026 FIFA World Cup into the largest alcohol marketing operation in the history of sport. For instance, Diageo, AB InBev and Ambev are using the tournament as ...
Sport should be about the joy in taking part in physical activity, not about huge profits or industries which harm our health.
It is disappointing, therefore, that two of the partners involved in the Commonwealth Games are Coca Cola & Jubel Beer.
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This is how alcohol marketing works:
👀 Capture attention
🍺 Trigger craving
⬆️ Increase drinking
In our latest blog, Dr Daniel Rudaizky of @curtinuniversity.bsky.social writes about new evidence showing this chain is causal.
So why are alcohol ads still everywhere?
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens
More than half of all deaths in Ireland are caused by four industries — alcohol, tobacco, fossil fuels, and unhealthy foods, all of which resist public health measures
The more attention people pay to alcohol adverts, the more they crave alcohol - and the more they go on to drink. New experimental evidence shows this isn’t just correlation: directing attention to ad...
