ArticleNutrients2021
Nature and Potential Impact of Alcohol Health Warning Labels: A Scoping Review.
Article in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Warning label messages about the cancer risk associated with alcohol: Effects of causal language.Addictive behaviors · 2025Trial
- Developing and testing health warnings about alcohol and risk for breast cancer: Results from a national experiment with young adult women in the United States.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Trial
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- Impact of health warning labels and calorie labels on selection and purchasing of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks: A randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Trial
- Warning labels on alcoholic beverage containers: a pilot randomized experiment among young adults in Mexico.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Designing Effective Alcohol Warnings: Consumer Reactions to Icons and Health Topics.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Trial
- Alcohol and Cancer Messaging: A Scoping Review.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2026Article
- The Route of Biogenic Amines in Alcoholic Beverages: A Focus on Wine.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Perceptions of cannabis warnings and recommendations for improvement: a qualitative study with people who use cannabis from the United States.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Implementation of health warnings on alcoholic beverages in Spain.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Consumer reactions to multiple and single health warnings on static alcohol ads: A factorial survey experiment with a convenience sample of adults in Ireland.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
- Perception is reality: qualitative insights into how consumers perceive alcohol warning labels.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Article
- Effect of alcohol health warning labels on knowledge related to the ill effects of alcohol on cancer risk and their public perceptions in 14 European countries: an online survey experiment.The Lancet. Public health · 2024Article
- Designing and implementing an experimental survey on knowledge and perceptions about alcohol warning labels.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2024Article
- How effective are health messages/warnings in improving knowledge and awareness of alcohol-related harm? The Slovenian case on using a mobile app.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2023Article
- The "Why" in Mental Health, Stigma, and Addictive Behaviors: Causal Inferences in Applied Settings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- How Do Young Adult Drinkers React to Varied Alcohol Warning Formats and Contents? An Exploratory Study in France.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- 'It's somewhere here, isn't it'? The provision of information and health warnings for alcoholic beverages sold online in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Observational
- Alcohol Health Warning Labels: A Rapid Review with Action Recommendations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
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Abstract
Alcohol is toxic to human health. In addition to providing nutritional information, labels on alcohol products can be used to communicate warnings on alcohol-related harms to consumers. This scoping review examined novel or enhanced health warning labels to assess the current state of the research and the key studied characteristics of labels, along with their impact on the studied outcomes. Four databases (Web of Science, MEDLINE, PsycInfo, CINAHL) were searched between January 2010 and April 2021, and 27 papers were included in the review. The results found that most studies were undertaken in English-speaking populations, with the majority conducted online or in the laboratory setting as opposed to the real world. Seventy percent of the papers included at least one cancer-related message, in most instances referring either to cancer in general or to bowel cancer. Evidence from the only real-world long-term labelling intervention demonstrated that alcohol health warning labels designed to be visible and contain novel and specific information have the potential to be part of an effective labelling strategy. Alcohol health warning labels should be seen as tools to raise awareness on alcohol-related risks, being part of wider alcohol policy approaches.
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