Message on a bottle: are alcohol warning labels about cancer appropriate?

ER Miller, IJ Ramsey, GY Baratiny, IN Olver - BMC public health, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Although most Australians are unaware of the risk, there is strong
evidence for a direct link between alcohol consumption and many types of cancer. Warning …

'Alcohol causes cancer': a difficult message for Australians to swallow

NJ May, J Eliott, S Crabb - Health Promotion International, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Alcohol is a modifiable risk factor for cancer. Public awareness of the link between alcohol
and cancer risk is poor; thus, alcohol consumers may be unknowingly putting themselves at …

The effect of cancer warning statements on alcohol consumption intentions

S Pettigrew, MI Jongenelis, D Glance… - Health education …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In response to increasing calls to introduce warning labels on alcoholic beverages, this
study investigated the potential effectiveness of alcohol warning statements designed to …

Developing cancer warning statements for alcoholic beverages

S Pettigrew, M Jongenelis, T Chikritzhs, T Slevin… - BMC public health, 2014 - Springer
Background There is growing evidence of the increased cancer risk associated with alcohol
consumption, but this is not well understood by the general public. This study investigated …

Testing alcohol labels as a tool to communicate cancer risk to drinkers: a real-world quasi-experimental study

E Hobin, A Weerasinghe, K Vallance… - Journal of Studies on …, 2020 - jsad.com
Objective: This study tested the initial and continued effects of cancer warning labels on
drinkers' recall and knowledge that alcohol can cause cancer. Method: A quasi-experiment …

Communicating risks to drinkers: testing alcohol labels with a cancer warning and national drinking guidelines in Canada

E Hobin, S Shokar, K Vallance, D Hammond… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Objective To test whether alcohol labels with a cancer warning and national drinking
guidelines are an effective tool for supporting more informed and safer alcohol consumption …

New national alcohol guidelines in the UK: public awareness, understanding and behavioural intentions

G Rosenberg, L Bauld, L Hooper, P Buykx… - Journal of Public …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Alcohol consumption places a significant burden on the NHS and is an
important risk factor for cancer, associated with 12 800 UK cases/year. New alcohol …

Improving knowledge that alcohol can cause cancer is associated with consumer support for alcohol policies: Findings from a real-world alcohol labelling study

A Weerasinghe, N Schoueri-Mychasiw… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Knowledge that alcohol can cause cancer is low in Canada. Alcohol labels are one strategy
for communicating alcohol-related harms, including cancer. Extending existing research …

Designing cancer warning labels for alcoholic beverages: Examining the impact of visual elements

Z Ma, R Ma - Health Education & Behavior, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Alcohol is a known carcinogen. However, public awareness of cancer risk associated with
alcohol use is low. A promising approach to raising awareness is to include cancer warning …

Cancer warning labels on alcohol containers: a consumer's right to know, a government's responsibility to inform, and an industry's power to thwart

T Stockwell, R Solomon, P O'Brien, K Vallance… - Journal of Studies on …, 2020 - jsad.com
Objective: Although the World Health Organization (WHO) declared alcohol a Class 1
carcinogen 30 years ago, few governments have communicated this fact to the public. We …