The alcohol industry, the tobacco industry, and excise taxes in the US 1986-89: new insights from the tobacco documents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The UCSF Industry Documents Library has provided public health researchers with key insights into the organization of political activities in the tobacco industry. Much less is known about the alcohol industry. In the US, there is some existing evidence of cooperation between the two industries, particularly in areas where there are mutual interests and/or policy goals at stake. Efforts to raise excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol products are one such example.

Methods

We systematically searched the UCSF Industry Documents Library for data on alcohol industry actors and their political activities. Using content generated by alcohol and tobacco actors, we sought to identify new evidence of collaborations to shape excise tax policy debates in the US in the 1980s and

SUBMITTER: Lesch M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9097384 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature