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Impact of Changes in Distilled Spirits Availability on Apparent Consumption: a time series analysis of liquor‐by‐the‐drink
Author(s) -
HOLDER HAROLD D.,
BLOSE JAMES O.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1987.tb01524.x
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , agricultural economics , distilled water , advertising , toxicology , environmental health , business , medicine , economics , chemistry , sociology , social science , chromatography , biology
Summary The availability of distilled spirits for public consumption by the individual drink is taken for granted in Western Europe and most of the United States. However, little is known about the contribution of liquor‐by‐the‐drink (LBD) to overall consumption. A 1978 change in the state law in North Carolina (U.S.A.) permitting LBD for the first time since Prohibition provided an opportunity for a natural experiment. A quasi‐experimental study was undertaken to estimate the impact of LBD on apparent consumption of distilled spirits in North Carolina. Time series analysis for the period from January 1973 through December 1982 found that LBD resulted in statistically significant increases of from 6 to 7.4% in total distilled spirits sales in two groups of counties implementing LBD. No change in sales was found for a comparison group of non‐LBD counties.