The Impact of Lower-Strength Alcohol Products on Alcohol Purchases by Spanish Households.

ABSTRACT: In its action plan (2022-2030) to reduce the harmful use of alcohol, the WHO calls on economic operators to "substitute, whenever possible, higher-alcohol products with no-alcohol and lower-alcohol products in their overall product portfolios, with the goal of decreasing the overall levels of alcohol consumption in populations and consumer groups". In this paper, we investigate substitution at the level of the consumer based on Spanish household purchase data. ARIMA modelling of market research data of 1.29 million alcohol purchases from 18,954 Spanish households is used to study the potential impact of lower-strength alcohol products on reducing household purchases of grams of alcohol between the second quarter of 2017 and the first quarter of 2022. For households that recently bought eit

SUBMITTER: Anderson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9413452 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature