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The alcohol industry is unrelenting in its attempts to hide the detrimental reality of its product from consumers & continues to try to undermine public health efforts. Ireland must stand firm on its labelling laws #alcoholrighttoknow @EUROCAREBRUSSEL
Press release: Who cares about cancer when there’s profit to be made? Certainly not the alcohol...
Alcohol Action Ireland press release, December 4, 2024 With political parties about to start the horse trading to ...
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Data from today’s Healthy Ireland survey indicate increase in proportion of population who consume alcohol & increase in binge drinking. Points to real need for new gov to ensure a dedicated strategy to address alcohol issues. @fiannafailparty @FineGael
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/d1ab3-healthy-ireland-survey-2024/#alcohol-use
Great to see this call from Estonia health minister to tie alcohol excise duty to inflation.
Similar approach needed in Ireland where excise duties have not changed in 11 years and are losing their public health value.
Estonia's health minister wants to tie alcohol excise duty to inflation
According to Minister of Health Riina Sikkut (SDE), the specific model for calculating alcohol excise duty based on ...
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Alc industry has extensive access to policy makers in Irl and the outcome is slow progress in reducing alcohol consumption & high levels of harm including €12bn cost annually. Need a framework to guide all gov interactions with health harming industries
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41527631.html
Thanks @irishexaminer @CormacJOKeeffe for covering this.
Many thanks @Rita_McInerney @fiannafailparty for signing our pledge to establish a much needed Office for Alcohol Harm Reduction, which would drive coherent government policy. See full list here. ……………………………………………… #GE2024
General Election Pledge - Alcohol Action Ireland
General Election 2024 Candidate’s Pledge Dear Candidate, Alcohol harm costs high-income countries like Ireland 2.5%...
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Many thanks Natasha Newsome Drennan @sinnfeinireland for signing our pledge to establish a much needed Office for Alcohol Harm Reduction, which would drive coherent government policy. See full list here. …………………………………………… #GE2024
General Election Pledge - Alcohol Action Ireland
General Election 2024 Candidate’s Pledge Dear Candidate, Alcohol harm costs high-income countries like Ireland 2.5%...
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Very many thanks Mícheál 'Boxty' Ó Conaill @greenparty_ie for signing our election pledge to establish an Alcohol Office to drive coherent cross-gov policy to address alcohol harms in all its forms.
#GE2024
General Election Pledge - Alcohol Action Ireland
General Election 2024 Candidate’s Pledge Dear Candidate, Alcohol harm costs high-income countries like Ireland 2.5%...
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Our new guest opinion piece from @EmilJuslin @IOGTNTOMOVEMENT examines industry influence on EU policy re alcohol product labelling.
Illustrates the continuing importance of Ireland's progress on regulations in this space. @roinnslainte @DonnellyStephen
Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: How Big Alcohol lobbying diluted a historic public health breakthro...
Guest Blog by Emil Juslin, Director of Advocacy at IOGT-NTO Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, and the following BECA ...
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Huge thanks Senator @ErinMcGreehan @fiannafailparty for signing our election pledge to establish an Alcohol Office to drive coherent policy across government to address alcohol harm in all its harm.
#GE2024
General Election Pledge - Alcohol Action Ireland
General Election 2024 Candidate’s Pledge Dear Candidate, Alcohol harm costs high-income countries like Ireland 2.5%...
alcoholireland.ie
Huge thanks Senator @ErinMcGreehan @fiannafailparty for signing our election pledge to establish an Alcohol Office to drive coherent policy across government to address alcohol harm in all its harm.
#GE2024
General Election Pledge - Alcohol Action Ireland
General Election 2024 Candidate’s Pledge Dear Candidate, Alcohol harm costs high-income countries like Ireland 2.5%...
alcoholireland.ie
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