Commentary on 'Communicating Messages About Drinking': Using the 'Big Legal Guns' to Block Alcohol Health Warning Labels

Alcohol Alcohol. 2018 May 1;53(3):333-336. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agx124.

Abstract

Like the tobacco industry, the alcohol industry, with the support of governments in alcohol exporting nations, is looking to international trade and investment law as a means to oppose health warning labels on alcohol. The threat of such litigation, let alone its commencement, has the potential to deter all but the most resolute governments from implementing health warning labeling.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Alcohol Drinking / adverse effects*
  • Alcohol Drinking / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Alcohol Drinking / trends
  • Alcoholic Beverages / adverse effects*
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
  • Humans
  • International Law*
  • Product Labeling / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Product Labeling / trends