Researchers recommended controls like those related to tobacco and cannabis, such as higher taxes and better labels.
The Canadian federal government has not adopted many evidence-informed alcohol policies that could avert or reduce major health, social, and economic costs linked to alcohol use, according to a new study.
Overall, the federal government received top marks for physical availability policies and passing marks for monitoring and reporting. However, the government received a zero for not having a minimum legal age and low marks for impaired driving countermeasures, a national alcohol strategy, and a national control system.
Farkouh recommended that Canada implement an alcohol act like those for tobacco and cannabis. Such an act would raise taxes, implement marketing controls, and require health risk information on labels, including a cancer warning."Canada continues to be a high alcohol-consuming country, relative to the rest of the world, and alcohol causes a high economic and health burden in our country," said Erin Hobin, a senior scientist with Public Health Ontario.
"The federal government, like the others, earns a failing grade. That's the bad news. The good news is that the study provides direction on a range of policy improvements that could mitigate the significant harms of beverage alcohol," said Peter Butt, MD, associate professor of family medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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