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Introduction
Taxation is increasingly being used as an effective means of influencing behaviour in relation to harmful products. In this paper we use data from six participating countries of the International Alcohol Control Study to examine and evaluate their comparative prices and tax regimes.
Methods
We calculate taxes and prices for three high‐income and three middle‐income countries. The data...
Aim To compare alcohol purchasing and consumption by ill drinkers in Edinburgh with wider alcohol sales in Scotland.
Design Cross‐sectional.
Setting Two hospitals in Edinburgh in 2008/09.
Participants A total of 377 patients with serious alcohol problems; two‐thirds were in‐patients with medical, surgical or psychiatric problems due to alcohol; one‐third were out‐patients.
Measurements Last week's...
Aims The aim of this study is to assess the contribution of the alcopops tax to changes in alcohol consumption and beverage preference among adolescents in Germany. We hypothesize that the decrease of alcohol intake by alcopops is substituted by an increase of alcohol intake by other alcoholic beverages.
Design Data came from the German 2003 (n = 10 551) and 2007 (n = 10 598) cross‐sectional study...
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