Case library

Cases of alcohol industry misconduct from around the world exposing the predatory practices.

A library of all the unethical methods of Big Alcohol – aggressive lobbying, unethical marketing, sabotaging of rules and institutions and much more, all in one place.

Understanding Alcohol Policy Making As Contest Between Research Community and Alcohol Industry About Place of Science in Alcohol Policy

Collectively, the research shows that alcohol policy making has involved a contest between the research community and alcohol industry ...

How Industry-Funded Alcohol Conferences Frame the Issues

This study found industry-favorable framings of harms and solutions within the alcohol and gambling conferences included in our sample. ...

Outdated Alcohol Labels: Researchers Call for Better Warning Labels to Flag Cancer Risks

In a research perspective article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors Grumman and Hall point out that the current ...

How Big Alcohol Fought Pregnancy Warning Labels in France

This study fills a gap in the Anglosphere research on lobbying against alcohol warnings by analyzing lobbyists’ arguments over a ...

Branding and the Decoy Effect in Alcohol Purchasing Decisions

To inform the development of regulatory strategies, it is important to understand how alcohol branding interacts with seductive pricing ...

Health-Oriented Marketing on Alcohol Products in Australia

This study found that health-oriented marketing is prevalent in alcohol products sold in Australia. In the absence of universal and ...

Alcohol Packaging as a Promotional Tool

This research conducted by the University of Stirling and supported by Alcohol Focus Scotland looked at how the packaging of alcohol ...

Sexualized Alcohol Marketing Increases Risk for Sexual Exploitation in Nigeria

This study found that the alcohol industry‘s strategy of using young women to promote beer in Benin City, Nigeria ...

Four Lessons on How to Protect Science from the Alcohol Industry

The authors interviewed 37 alcohol researchers based in 10 high-income countries. They found that they all had some form of contact with ...

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