ArticleNutrients2023
Reduction of Alcoholic Strength: Does It Matter for Public Health?
Article in Nutrients, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Regulation of Alcohol-Free and Low-Alcohol Drinks: Learning From a Comparative Analysis of Eight Countries.Drug and alcohol review · 2026Article
- Current and future trends in the consumption, sale and purchasing of alcohol-free and low-alcohol products in Great Britain, 2014 to 2023.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
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- Effects of moderate beer consumption on immunity and the gut microbiome in immunosuppressed mice.Bioscience of microbiota, food and health · 2025Article
- Alcohol-free and low-strength drinks: friend or foe?Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2025Article
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- The role of alcohol control policies in the reversal of alcohol consumption levels and resulting attributable harms in China.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- Lower-Strength Alcohol Products and Public Health.Nutrients · 2023Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
In this work, reduction of alcoholic strength was discussed as a means to reduce consumption and alcohol-attributable harm. Statistical modelling was conducted to (1) estimate its potential for the largest six Western and Central European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK); (2) calculate the increase in taxation necessary to reach this potential, and (3) estimate the mortality gains achieved with the introduction of no- or low-alcohol beverages in the UK and Spain. The high public health potential of reducing alcoholic strength was demonstrated via modelling a scenario in which the strength of all beverages was reduced by 10%, which would avert thousands of deaths in these six European countries per year. However, methods by which to achieve these gains were not clear, as the alcohol industry has shown no inclination toward reductions in the alcoholic strength of beer, wine, or spirits via a reformulation on a large scale. The increase of excise taxation to achieve the public health gains of such a reduction would result in markedly increasing prices-a situation unlikely to be implemented in Europe. Finally, the introduction of beer and wine with an alcoholic strength below 0.5% led to some substitutions of higher-strength beverages, but did not show a marked public health impact. New taxation initiatives to achieve the potential of a reduction of alcoholic strength will need to be implemented.
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