An Analysis of the Alcohol Interventions Around the World
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Abstract
Nowadays, global alcohol consumption is expanding rapidly, causing health impacts on global citizens and posing a significant threat to the development of society and countries. Although countries have had relevant policies on alcohol use, it is difficult to achieve the purpose of restriction due to the lack of a unified global convention. This paper emphasizes the focus and direction of alcohol interventions by comparing the different effects of alcohol consumption on different groups of people and puts forward the advantages and disadvantages of the alcohol consumption tax policy, which is now considered the most effective measure in the world, as well as the cognitive blind area that tobacco tax can also intervene in alcohol consumption (synergistic effect of tobacco and alcohol). This paper aims to improve alcohol intervention policies further and make the measures more targeted and implementable according to the corresponding impacts on different groups and the existing defects. Countries are supposed to work together to develop international conventions for alcohol consumption to increase control effectiveness.
Keywords
alcoholism, alcohol interventions, drinking hazards, tax policy
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Feng,Y. (2023). An Analysis of the Alcohol Interventions Around the World. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,27,14-20.
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