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Alcohol industry uses tobacco tactics to downplay deadly risks and block reforms, studies show

Recommendations include raising taxes, reducing marketing and availability, mandating independent warning labels, and excluding industry from health policymaking

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Urgent action is needed to protect public health from alcohol industry influence and to curb alcohol-related disease and death, according to international researchers.  

Alcohol industry-backed apps mislead users, could boost drinking, new study warns

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Alcohol industry-funded (AIF) apps promoted to reduce alcohol consumption contain health misinformation and may encourage users to drink, potentially causing more harm than good, say researchers in a first-of-its-kind report.