Wine + Health 3: The Commercial Determinants of Health With Christopher Snowdown

September 25, 2024 01:01:33
Wine + Health 3: The Commercial Determinants of Health With Christopher Snowdown
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Wine + Health 3: The Commercial Determinants of Health With Christopher Snowdown

Sep 25 2024 | 01:01:33

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Felicity Carter

Show Notes

Why are there so many anti-alcohol stories appearing in the media? One of the harshest critics of the anti-alcohol movement is Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the free market think tank Institute of Economic Affairs in the UK. In this wide-ranging discussion, we delve into the anti-alcohol movement, exploring its implications on personal freedoms and public health.

Topics covered include:

  1. The history of the modern anti-alcohol movement and how it rose from the ashes of Prohibition;
  2. The system of grants that sustains it;
  3. The Total Consumption Model of alcohol, which suggests that the only way to help heavy drinkers is to get everybody to stop drinking;
  4. The “commercial determinants of health” and why governments like the idea; and
  5. Why alcohol policies often fail. 

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