Reducing Harm Due to Alcohol: Success Stories From 3 Countries
Submitted by Edie
- 16 April 2021
The European Region has the highest level of alcohol consumption in the world.
To reduce these harms, WHO/Europe has identified three affordable, feasible and cost-effective intervention strategies:
- increase excise taxes on alcoholic beverages
- introduce and enforce bans or clear restrictions on exposure to alcohol advertising
- enact and enforce restrictions on the physical availability of retailed alcohol.
Here you can read about the successful outcomes in Lithuania, Scotland and the Russian Federation.
