ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2022
Alcohol affordability: implications for alcohol price policies. A cross-sectional analysis in middle and older adults from UK Biobank.
Article in Journal of public health (Oxford, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The relationship between the price and demand of alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy food, sugar-sweetened beverages, and gambling: an umbrella review of systematic reviews.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Reduction in sugar intake after the introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland: a difference-in-differences analysis.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Factors influencing complete abstinence during Thailand's temporary alcohol abstinence campaign.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Impact of Longitudinal Patterns of Alcohol Use on Mortality in People Who Inject Drugs: A Prospective, Community-based Cohort Study.Journal of addiction medicine · 2025Article
- The effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on food purchases: Evaluation of a natural experiment.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Health and household environment factors linked with early alcohol use in adolescence: a record-linked, data-driven, longitudinal cohort study.International journal of population data science · 2022Article
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backgroundIncreasing the price of alcohol reduces alcohol consumption and harm. The role of food complementarity, transaction costs and inflation on alcohol demand are determined and discussed in relation to alcohol price policies.
methodsUK Biobank (N = 502,628) was linked by region to retail price quotes for the years 2007 to 2010. The log residual food and alcohol prices, and alcohol availability were regressed onto log daily alcohol consumption. Model standard errors were adjusted for clustering by region.
resultsAssociations with alcohol consumption were found for alcohol price (β = -0.56, 95% CI, -0.92 to -0.20) and availability (β = 0.06, 95% CI, 0.04 to 0.07). Introducing, food price reduced the alcohol price consumption association (β = -0.26, 95% CI, -0.50 to -0.03). Alcohol (B = 0.001, 95% CI, 0.0004 to 0.001) and food (B = 0.001, 95% CI, 0.0005 to 0.0006) price increased with time and were associated (ρ = 0.57, P < 0.001).
conclusionAlcohol and food are complements, and the price elasticity of alcohol reduces when the effect of food price is accounted for. Transaction costs did not affect the alcohol price consumption relationship. Fixed alcohol price policies are susceptible to inflation.
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