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Response to the Distilled spirits Industry Council of Australia Inc. position paper ‘Alcohol Availability’
Author(s) -
Hawks David
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0959-5236
DOI - 10.1080/09595239300185791
Subject(s) - position (finance) , alcohol consumption , alcohol , consumption (sociology) , liberalization , business , economics , sociology , market economy , social science , chemistry , finance , biochemistry
A critique is offered of the Distilled Spirits Industry Council position paper ‘Alcohol Availability’. It is argued that this position paper presents a simple‐minded analysis of the complex relationship between the availability of alcohol and its consumption which pays no attention to the importance of price in determining consumption. As a consequence, it misconstrues the lessons to be drawn from the Victorian experiment in liberalization and fails to consider its implications for the incidence of alcohol related problems.