ArticleFuture healthcare journal2025
Alcohol industry conflicts of interest: The pollution pathway from misinformation to alcohol harms.
Article in Future healthcare journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Consumers' Attitudes and Preferences Towards Ingredients List, Nutrition Information and Health Warning Labelling on Alcohol Products: A Scoping Review.Current nutrition reports · 2026Article
- Detection of congeners and contaminants in commercial and homemade alcoholic beverages under varying temperatures using metal-phenolic film-coated quartz crystal microbalances.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Reviewing ecosystems of evidence: synthesising the evidence on the commercial determinants of health from a complex systems perspective.Systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Addressing Parental Supply of Alcohol to Teens: Development and Message Testing of the Keep Their Future Bright Campaign.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2026Article
- If commercial incentives are the engine, then conflicts of interest are the lubricant.Future healthcare journal · 2025Article
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Abstract
The alcohol industry plays a major role in global public health harm, and shapes policies and public perceptions to its benefit, through misinformation, lobbying and self-regulation. This article describes the alcohol industry's conflicts of interest, particularly in the dissemination of misleading health information, its role in school-based alcohol 'education', and its resistance to evidence-based harm reduction measures. The industry's activities contribute to a 'pollution pathway' that normalises alcohol consumption while obscuring its links to cancer, cardiovascular disease, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and other harms. Alcohol industry-funded organisations, such as Drinkaware, omit and distort the evidence on health risks and seek to shift the responsibility for harm onto consumers. Drawing parallels with the tobacco industry, we argue for stricter regulation, exclusion of the alcohol industry from health policymaking, and stronger public awareness campaigns to counter alcohol industry misinformation. Urgent action is needed to protect public health from alcohol industry influence and to mitigate alcohol-related harm.
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