ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

What effect do alcohol warnings have upon stated consumption levels and perceptions over future alcohol consumption?

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of warnings on alcohol consumptions levels and perceptions over future alcohol consumption; the government also regulates the advertising of many nonfood and non-medicinal products for health reasons, notably tobacco and alcohol.

Alcohol is the most commonly abused substance in the United Kingdom. Legislation that would require alcohol advertising warning labels did not make it out of a congressional committee. Some nations have set minimum age for purchase and/or consumption of beverage alcohol in the hope of diminishing alcohol-related problems. The data set for this purpose of this study has been collected through survey questionnaire, a sample 427 individuals from 207 were female and 227 males were asked about their current typical weekly alcohol consumption and their perception as to how that consumption would change over 30 years. Nonparametric statistical tests are those which, although based on certain assumptions, not based on the assumption that the analyzed data assume a normal distribution, statistical technique that does not presuppose any theoretical probability distribution of the distribution of our data.

What effect do alcohol warnings have upon stated consumption levels and perceptions over future alcohol consumption?

Introduction

The advertising and marketing of all health products and products that make health claims are strictly regulated in the United Kingdom by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), depending on the nature of the product. Dietary supplements and foods that are marketed with health claims are regulated by the FDA as foods rather than as drugs. Three substances that do not fit this description are additionally regulated as dietary supplements under U.K. federal law: the steroids pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and the hormone melatonin.

Literature Review

The government also regulates the advertising of many nonfood and non-medicinal products for health reasons, notably tobacco and alcohol. In the last few decades, regulations have continually tightened around alcohol marketing and advertising in an attempt to prevent alcohol companies from marketing to children and teenagers, with each further restriction passing when it has become clear that the previous restriction did not sufficiently curtail teen drinking. The Federal Trade Commission has similarly explored the possibility of restricting alcohol advertising because of the possibility of targeting underage drinkers, but unlike the tobacco industry, the European alcohol industry (which has a long history of having its activities restricted by law) is largely self-regulating. It is largely for this reason that alcohol ads are permitted on television while tobacco ads are not.

Alcohol is the most commonly abused substance in the United Kingdom. Many people who abuse alcohol are alcoholics. Alcoholism is a serious disease that has four main features: craving, or a strong need to drink; loss of control, or not being able to stop drinking once started; physical dependence, or having withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, or shakiness, after stopping drinking; and tolerance, or the need to drink greater amounts of alcohol in ...