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Ep 3: The Commercial Determinants of Health With Christopher Snowdown

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Why are there so many anti-alcohol stories appearing in the media? One of the harshest critics of the anti-alcohol movement is Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the free market think tank Institute of Economic Affairs in the UK. In this wide-ranging discussion, we delve into the anti-alcohol movement, exploring its implications on personal freedoms and public health.

Topics covered include:

  1. The history of the modern anti-alcohol movement and how it rose from the ashes of Prohibition;
  2. The system of grants that sustains it;
  3. The Total Consumption Model of alcohol, which suggests that the only way to help heavy drinkers is to get everybody to stop drinking;
  4. The “commercial determinants of health” and why governments like the idea; and
  5. Why alcohol policies often fail. 

    6. Relevant documents:

    • The World Health Organization and their Commercial Determinants of Health document.
    • The work of Professor Tim Stockwell, whose meta-analyses that dispute the existence of the J-curve have received huge media attention. You’ll find Chris Snowdon’s criticisms here.
    • The doomed MACH (Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health) trial.  
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