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Taxation of Alcoholic Beverages
Wagenaar, Alexander
Wagenaar, Alexander
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2013-10-17
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/7446
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Because alcohol taxes have not been adjusted for inflation, spirits only cost one-fifth of what they used to cost in the 1950’s, leading to a host of alcohol-related injury and disease. In the United States, 80,000 deaths per year and 1.6 million hospitalizations per year are attributable to alcohol consumption. Alexander Wagenaar, PhD, professor at University of Florida, suggests in his Critical Opportunities presentation that doubling the rate of alcohol taxes and building in automatic annual adjustments for inflation could help solve some of these alcohol-related public health issues.
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The Critical Opportunities initiative of the Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation presents evidence and ideas for proposed legal and policy changes that can positively impact public health challenges. This video presents these ideas and evidence, and includes the practical and political feasibility of implementing the proposed changes to laws and policies. All Critical Opportunities videos can be viewed at http://youtube.com/CriticalOpps4PHL
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CriticalOpps4PHL, Taxation of Alcoholic Beverages, YouTube (Oct. 17, 2013), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk26FoRpJFE.
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Additional resources available at: http://publichealthlawresearch.org/product/taxation-alcoholic-beverages
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