Modelling the impact of increased alcohol taxation on alcohol-attributable cancers in the WHO European Region.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reducing the alcohol-attributable cancer burden in the WHO European Region is a public health priority. This study aims to estimate the number of potentially avoidable cancers in countries of the WHO European Region in 2019 for three scenarios in which current excise duties on alcoholic beverages were increased by 20%, 50%, or 100%.

Methods

Mean prices and excise duties for beer, wine, and spirits in the Member States of the WHO European Region in 2020 were used as the baseline scenario. We assumed that increases in excise duties (20%, 50%, and 100%) were fully incorporated into the consumer price. Beverage-specific price elasticities of demand, with lower elasticities for heavy drinkers, were obtained from a meta-analysis. Model estimates were applied to alcohol

SUBMITTER: Kilian C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642705 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature