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ArticleScottish affairs2020

'Tied up in a legal mess': The alcohol industry's use of litigation to oppose minimum alcohol pricing in Scotland.

Benjamin Hawkins, Jim McCambridge

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Article in Scottish affairs, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Benjamin HawkinsDr Benjamin Hawkins is Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses principally on the role of corporate actors, particularly in the alcohol and tobacco industries, on health policy debates at the national, European and global levels. In addition, he has published work on European integration, multi-level governance, international trade and political economy approaches to health policy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7027-8046
Jim McCambridgeProfessor Jim McCambridge holds the Chair in Addictive Behaviours & Public Health at the University of York. His research interests span alcohol, drugs and other addictions and research methodology. He is also Visiting Professor at Linkoping University in Sweden, and Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia. His alcohol policy work is primarily concerned with better understanding the ways in which corporate actors influence science and policy in order to strengthen public health policy making.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5461-7001
Alcohol and Drug Foundation · AULinköping University · SE

Funding

Wellcome Trust 200321/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article examines the alcohol industry's legal challenges to minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland through the stages heuristic of the policy process. It builds on previous studies of alcohol pricing policy in Scotland and across the UK, and of the use of legal challenges by health harming industries to oppose health policy globally. Having failed to prevent MUP passing into law, industry actors sought to frustrate the implementation of the legislation via challenges in the Scottish, European and UK courts. However, the relevance of legal challenges is not limited to the post-legislative stage of the policy process but was foreshadowed in all earlier stages of the policy process. The

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alcohol industryalcohol policylegal challengeMinimum Unit PricingScotland

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PMID32733118
PMCPMC7357823
OpenAlexW3007028617

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