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Man selling alcohol from a window.

Sri Lanka’s Alcohol Tax Reform Spurs Economic and Health Recovery

by Sampath De Seram, Kristina Sperkova

Amidst economic turmoil, the opportunity emerges for transformative fiscal policies to tackle public health challenges

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A worker arranges crates of beer before loading them onto a truck inside a San Miguel beer warehouse in Manila, November 14, 2012.

The Philippines’ Blind Spot for Alcohol

by Gianna Gayle Amul

Why the alcohol problem in the Philippines is complicated

A man picks a green bottle at an assembly line inside the Taiwan Beer factory in Jhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan, February 13, 2008.
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A Successful Battle Against the Bottle

by Roy Rillera Marzo

How the government, health-care professionals, and the community improved alcohol policies in Taiwan

A life-size cutot of Professor Aurejus Veryga is used to block the path to buying alcohol in a supermarket during hours when alcohol sales are prohibited, in Lithuania, on January 7, 2019..​
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Reducing Alcohol-Related Deaths in Lithuania

How the country is cutting down on deaths related to excess drinking

Bar Manager Nicolas de Soto mixes a Calvados-based cocktail at ECC in Chinatown, London December 3, 2010.
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Alcohol: A Public Health Blind Spot

Richard Yoast on alcohol consumption and how philanthropies could help curb excess drinking   

A woman pours alcohol from the bottle into her mouth at the Far Hills Race Day at Moorland Farms in Far Hills, New Jersey, on October 17, 2015.
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Alcohol in Excess

How the World Health Organization plans to curb excess drinking across countries

The watercolor image shows a Russian man hefting a bottle and taking a big swig from it. His shadow is cast enlarged, looming over the top of the canvas.
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A Russian Prescription to Reduce Alcohol Use

by Emmanuela Gakidou, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Dana Bryazka

Sustained changes to alcohol policy in Russia have contributed to big gains in life expectancy