Open AccessHere we go again: cider's turn to highlight anomalies in Australia's alcohol taxation system
Author(s) -
Carragher Natacha,
Shakeshaft Anthony,
Doran Christopher M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/1753-6405.12000
Subject(s) - commonwealth , indigenous , public health , trachoma , optometry , population health , publishing , population , refractive error , wright , geography , medicine , political science , environmental health , history , ophthalmology , eye disease , law , nursing , biology , ecology , archaeology , pathology , art history
Letter: In both absolute and per capita terms, the value and volume of cider sales increased enormously in Australia between 2007 and 2011, ranging from 150 to 188%. These increases dwarfed all other types of alcohol; the only other beverages to increase more than 10% were the absolute volume of spirits (11.8%) and wine sales (10.3%), and the absolute value of spirits sales (13.1%). Due to such strong growth, the cider market is valued at $522 million, with volume sales totalling 57 million litres (see Table 1)