Citation

Iacobucci G. BMJ 2023; 380: p672.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.p672

PMID

36944425

Abstract

The introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland is associated with significant reductions in deaths from alcohol consumption, research has found.

Over a period of two years and eight months after the policy was rolled out in Scotland a 13% reduction was seen in deaths from alcohol consumption when compared with an estimate of the deaths that would have occurred without the legislation, using data from England. This is equivalent to avoiding 156 deaths a year, found the study by Public Health Scotland and the University of Glasgow, published in the Lancet.1

The greatest reductions in deaths were seen in people living in the most socioeconomically deprived 40% of Scotland and in men.

Grant Wyper, a lead author of the study and adviser at Public Health Scotland, told a Science Media Centre briefing that the results …

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