ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2021
Prices, alcohol use initiation and heavy episodic drinking among Chilean youth.
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- Global Research Trends in Community-Based Strategies for Reducing Risky Alcohol Consumption and Promoting Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Population-Level Impacts of Alcohol Use on Mental and Physical Health Outcomes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Neural correlates of negative life events and their relationships with alcohol and cannabis use initiation.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Taxation of tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages: reviewing the evidence and dispelling the myths.BMJ global health · 2023Review
- Prices, alcohol use initiation and heavy episodic drinking among Chilean youth.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimsTo examine the association between alcohol prices and age of initiation of alcohol use and the association between age of alcohol use initiation and heavy episodic drinking (HED) among adolescents in Chile.
designWe estimated discrete-time hazard models using retrospective data and generalized ordered probit models with repeated cross-sectional data.
settingChile.
participantsA total of 248 336 urban youth who attended secondary school between 2003 and 2015 and self-reported ever having tried alcohol. MEASUREMENTS: We created drinking histories from self-reported responses of age, age of alcohol use initiation and year/month of survey. From two self-reported responses, we created a four-category ordinal variable of heavy episodic drinking: none, one to two, three to nine and more than 10 HED episodes in the past 30 days. We constructed a monthly measure of real alcohol prices using the all-items and alcohol component of the Consumer Price Index compiled by Chile's statistical agency, the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas.
findingsFirst, we found negative, statistically significant and policy-meaningful associations between alcohol prices and the age of alcohol use initiation. The estimated price elasticity of delay was -0.99 [95% confidence interval (CI) = -1.30, -0.69]. A 10% increase in real alcohol prices was associated with delayed alcohol use initiation of approximately 6.6 months. Secondly, we found that youth who had started drinking alcohol at a later age had statistically significant and substantially lower probabilities of having reported HED during the previous month. For example, youth who started drinking at 16 were 4.9 (95% CI = 4.2-5.6) percentage points more likely to have reported no HED in the previous month relative to youth who started drinking alcohol when aged 12 years or younger.
conclusionsIncreasing the price of alcohol products may delay alcohol initiation among young people in Chile. Chilean youth who start drinking alcohol later may engage in less harmful drinking practices.
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