Alcohol taxation, alcohol consumption and cancers in Lithuania: A case study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The aim of this contribution was to estimate the impact of the last significant alcohol taxation increase in Lithuania in 2017 on alcohol consumption, incident cancer cases, and cancer mortality, as well as the number of cancer outcomes that could have potentially been averted in 2018 had larger increases in alcohol excise taxation been applied.

Design

Statistical modelling was used to estimate the change in alcohol per capita consumption following the tax increase, and alcohol-attributable fraction methodology was then used to estimate the associated cancer incidence and mortality. Potential increases of current excise duties were modelled in two steps. First, beverage-specific price elasticities of demand were used to predict the associated decreases in consumption an

SUBMITTER: Rovira P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8899268 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature