Charge for harm should be foundation of states' agreements with commercial drivers of harm.
These funds should be undoing the harms that Juul's products caused in the first place.
All the more so now that prevention infrastructure is being choked by defunding and uncertainty.
AHA said the review was not going to change their recommendation: there's no cardioprotective effect from drinking.
But it's trivially simple for the industry to weaponize data points like this against evidence-based health promotion. Thank you to Those Nerdy Girls for cutting to the heart of it.
Beyond the interminable creep of Big Alcohol's money into every corner of our day, CBS making our ability to get the news inseparable from promoting getting drunk is *hostile*--
Hostile to families with kids, hostile to people in recovery, hostile to anyone who's seen alcohol harm up close.
The alcohol advisory in the new USDA Dietary Guidelines isn't wrong--it's so threadbare as to be useless.
Effective guidance should be 1) actionable, 2) evidence-based, and 3) informational.
If HHS won't provide that anymore, is there someone else who will?
alcoholjustice.org/blog/if-the-...
As we anxiously anticipate attenuated--if not actively dangerous--alcohol consumption guidelines coming from the USDA in the coming weeks, JHSPH dissects the bad data and corrupt interpretations behind "healthy drinking".
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we would like to recognize not just the link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer, but the many tireless and passionate people working at that nexus to save lives.
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Sending love, support, and solidarity to all our neighbors in the Canal.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, but how many are aware of the link between breast cancer and alcohol?
Dr. Priscilla Martinez of @argdotorg.bsky.social gives the hows and whys of alcohol and breast cancer: what happens in the body AND the boardroom.
www.alcoholpolicy.org/latest/the-s...
NHANES is just latest national data source dismantled by the administration. The decisions are sometimes justified by accusations of redundancy.
Yet, as we explained last year, a telescope is not redundant with binoculars.
alcoholjustice.org/enews/trends...
Imagine staking your professional reputation as a health expert on smearing vaccines and acetaminophen, then shrugging your shoulders at alcohol and tobacco.
The UN Political Declaration on NCDs shows every sign of industry leaning heavily on complicit delegations, culminating in this: the man who would "Make America Healthy Again" turning a blind eye to the leading preventable causes of death in the U.S.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
The USDA Dietary Guidelines are due to be released in a couple weeks, but we know Sec. Kennedy will be burying key evidence of alcohol's harms. Take a moment to contact your member of Congress and ask them to release the report.
www.votervoice.net/AlcoholJusti...
Big Alcohol acknowledges that greater alcohol-related mortality goes hand in hand with fewer people drinking.
So consumption is becoming more lethal on a case-per-case basis. How much is due to getting that extra drink into a diminishing consumer base?
www.drinksinsider.com/p/gallup-fin...
How many reports about alcohol did the U.S. government release in the past year?
How many reports about alcohol did the U.S. government suppress in the past year?
What do they say? Why does it matter?
("2," "1," and "Read on to find out," respectively.)
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Hard to say that there's any one instance of industry overreach that lead to the generational changed drinking habits.
But we'd bet dollars to donuts that the Vox and NYT articles are going to make 50 times the impact that just letting the Alcohol Intake & Health study drop normally would have.
The industry's hypocrisy is relatively straightforward and in line with business self-interest.
What's funny is, this isn't the first time we've seen industry overreaction lead to better media coverage of health concerns--and greater public awareness of the risk.
www.jsad.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Stephanie Mencimer was early off the block making the alcohol-cancer link known--tremendous, balanced, and well-researched article from a, ahem, CAPA-award winning journalist.
Drafts of the Alcohol Intake & Health study that Kennedy tried to bury are still available on the HHS website, but we archived a copy just in case.
alcoholjustice.org/wp-content/u...
Powerful words from Dr. Diana Fishbein on how much we stand to lose from recklessly gutting federal SUD funding.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/o...
With the explosion of ready-to-drink cocktails, and beverage companies chasing the easy money in youth friendly mass-market products, this kind of mistake was a matter of when, not if.
www.foodandwine.com/high-noon-ce...
Seems like industry lobbyists have pushed the UN to cut back its Political Declaration on NCDs , removing references to commercial determinants of health and watering down calls for aggressive tax policy.
Allies, esp. outside the US--see NCD Alliance's call to action.
mailchi.mp/ncdalliance/...
The link in which we brag is... a factsheet.
File under "It's Always Nice to Be Noticed".
reason.com/2025/06/27/a...
Boomers spent their adulthoods inundated with the messages that alcohol was health-conducive.
Now they're the heaviest-drinking generation, at a time when the impacts are becoming more and more stark.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/w...
Not only is this a classic doubt-merchant summary of the evidence (taxes can clearly result in declines in consumption), it ignores the fact that these taxes can fund effective healthcare and prevention services--services that Big SSB and Big Alcohol would never fund on their own.
In the U.S., alcohol retail prices were the least affected by inflation of any beverage category, while alcohol taxes have lost over half of their value to inflation.
Any claim the industry might make to being burdened by tax hikes is an overt lie.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
"Drink in moderation" means nothing.
It's MEANT to mean nothing.
The current guidelines--1/day for women, 2 for men--already could lead to serious health problems. Recommending "moderation" means that HHS simply doesn't care what you die from.
🛟 #usda #alcohol
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
As the California legislative flips and bills move to the opposite houses, we're finally rolling out our CA alcohol legislation roundup.
We'll update more as these bills move along, guts are gutted and amends amended, and Sacramento chaos keeps churning along.
alcoholjustice.org/legislative-...
AJ stands with the US Alcohol Policy Alliance in saying: SAVE THE STOP ACT.
STOP Act funding has done wonders to reduce underage consumption . A small investment with generational impact.
If you have a moment, click below to send a message to Congress.
alcoholjustice.org/tell-congres...
The STOP Act may be on the chopping block. This small but mighty program helps keep our kids safe from alcohol-related harms.
Losing it is just one of the ways that the devastation at HHS hurts youth and young adults in Marin, California, and the USA.
www.marinij.com/2025/04/26/m...
