A chance for countries to support Ireland's world-leading cancer warning labels for alcohol containers

Paula O'Brien; Deborah Gleeson; Emmanuel Kuntsche; Robin Room

doi:10.1111/dar.13977

A chance for countries to support Ireland's world-leading cancer warning labels for alcohol containers

Drug Alcohol Rev. 2024 Nov 18. doi: 10.1111/dar.13977. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Paula O'Brien¹, Deborah Gleeson², Emmanuel Kuntsche³, Robin Room^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia.
² School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 39556443
DOI: 10.1111/dar.13977

Abstract

Ireland has regulated for all packaged alcohol products to include a health warning that states that 'there is a link between alcohol and fatal cancers'. This warning is being opposed in the World Trade Organization by 12 member states who are raising that the warning is an unnecessary barrier to trade. The World Health Organization is supporting Ireland. Countries should not oppose Ireland's warning which is defensible from legal and public health perspectives.

Keywords: Ireland; alcohol; cancer; labelling; trade.

Publication types

Editorial