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A ‘Fifty Shades’ Cocktail? How Booze Is Becoming the New Popcorn at Movie Theaters

Forget popcorn and Milk Duds. Booze is the next step in cinemas’ fight against flagging attendance. For decades, local and state laws prevented movie chains from offering alcoholic beverages in regular auditoriums … During the past two years, 32 states have relaxed their laws, allowing theaters to serve alcohol in any auditorium.

Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-fifty-shades-cocktail-how-booze-is-becoming-new-popcorn-at-movie-theaters-970726

[statistics] Drinking in England down 9% in a decade, heavy drinking down 20% | NHS

  • 57 per cent of adults reported drinking alcohol in the previous week in 2016 which is a fall from 64 per cent in 2006. This equates to 25.3 million adults in England.
  • Those who drank more than 8/6 units on their heaviest day in the last week fell from 19 per cent to 15 per cent.

Source: content.digital.nhs.uk/searchcatalogue?productid=25009

Note: A report was also released by the Office of National Statistics on the drinking habits of the UK as a whole. ■

[research] Alcohol Research UK Innovation Grants Programme open | Alcohol Research UK

This is the second year of our Research Priority “Treatment and Recovery Today” and applicants to this scheme must show clearly how their proposal addresses this priority. … This programme provides up to £75,000 for projects that address emerging issues in alcohol research, employ novel theoretical or methodological approaches, or pilot new work in treatment or service delivery.

Source: alcoholresearchuk.org/grants/

Ireland pioneers alcohol cancer warnings and minimum prices

Ireland’s upper house last week passed a long-awaited bill introducing minimum alcohol prices and requiring warnings of alcohol’s cancer risks and the protection of children from marketing.

According to the bill passed on Friday drinks labels will also need to list their ingredients for the first time. Ads as well as labels will have to include warnings of the cancer risk.

To stop children being weaned onto alcohol brands, shops will be required to hide alcohol marketing behind a 1.5m-high screen.

The bill will return to the Dáil, the lower house, next year. The government first introduced the bill in December 2015 and has been the subject of fierce lobbying since.

Ireland is the second country in the world to pass laws to require alcohol is sold above a minimum price after Scotland became the first in November.

Only Canada’s Yukon has so far introduced cancer warnings, and that is in a trial. ■