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Alcohol tax interventions have selective, rather than broad impacts on populations, drinking patterns, and alcohol-related harms. Studies of economic costs and benefits of increased alcohol taxes fail to properly account for these differences as well as the economic costs imposed on responsible drinkers.
Worldwide consumption in 2019 was equal to 5.5 litres of pure alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older. [6] This is a decrease from the 5.7 litres in 2010. Distilled alcoholic beverages are the most consumed, followed by beer and wines .
Drug Alcohol Rev, 40(6): 1061-1070. Lim, S.S. et al. (2013). A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors... Lancet, 380(9859): 2224-60. (Cited 16,222 times) Rehm, J. et al. (2009). Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable to alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders.
As Gen-Z drinks less, other age groups follow suit. The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health found less than two-thirds of Americans drank alcohol at least once in 2022. According to ...
A sin tax (also known as a sumptuary tax, or vice tax) is an excise tax specifically levied on certain goods deemed harmful to society and individuals, such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs, candy, soft drinks, fast foods, coffee, sugar, gambling, vaping, cannabis (wherever legal for recreational use) and pornography. [1]
Alcohol education is the planned provision of information and skills relevant to living in a world where alcohol is commonly misused. [4] WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health, highlights the fact that alcohol will be a larger problem in later years, with estimates suggesting it will be the leading cause of disability and death.
Excessive alcohol consumption is responsible for an average of 80,000 deaths in the U.S. each year 1 and $223.5 billion in economic costs in 2006. 2 More than half of these deaths and three-quarters of the economic costs are due to binge drinking 1 and 2 (≥4 drinks for women; ≥5 drinks for men, per occasion).
Globally, excessive alcohol consumption is the seventh leading risk factor for both death and the burden of disease and injury, [5] representing 5.1% of the total global burden of disease and injury, measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). [6]