Despite bold promises to prioritise prevention, the UK government has quietly abandoned key alcohol policy measures like minimum unit pricing and advertising restrictions - under pressure from alcohol industry lobbyists. New reporting by The Guardian reveals how alcohol industry front groups helped derail evidence-based policies, putting private profits before public health. Experts warn this retreat threatens people's health and lives as well as the future of the NHS itself.| Movendi International
Newly released government papers expose how Big Alcohol lobbyists in New Zealand worked to block effective alcohol policies. The Ministry of Health shared draft strategies with alcohol industry lobby groups, while withholding them from the public, and paused reforms after lobbying pressure. The documents reveal industry opposition to proven WHO measures such as higher taxes, lowered availability, and ending alcohol sponsorship in sport. They also show how the industry dismissed credible estim...| Movendi International
The 2025 UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs (UN HLM) is a historic opportunity to mobilise political leadership, increase investments, and generate commit to ambitious alcohol policy action to promote health and development for all. The current trends in alcohol consumption, harm, and policy indicate that the global target set for reducing population-level alcohol consumption will not be met by 2030. The 4th HLM on NCDs is a timely and critical opportunity to level up recognition of the need for a...| Movendi International
The latest draft of the UN Political Declaration (Revision 3) brings back two references to alcohol policy best buys—barely avoiding complete meaninglessness. Yet the draft still falls short of previous global commitments to accelerate action, ignores WHO guidance, sidesteps the scientific evidence, and fails to match the scale of the alcohol burden.| Movendi International
Alcohol industry language, no alcohol policy action: UN Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health risks becoming meaningless. Alcohol industry interference in the drafting of the political declaration of the fourth high-level meeting on NCDs and mental health has quietly erased proven, cost-effective alcohol policy measures - despite alcohol being the leading risk factor for death and disease among young people worldwide. While tobacco is treated with specificity and urgency, alcohol po...| Movendi International
The harm caused by the practices and products of the alcohol industry can be reversed through implementation of evidence-based, cost-effective and high-impact public policy measures: the alcohol policy best buys.| Movendi International
The Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania (Seimas) adopted amendments to the Law on Alcohol on June 1, 2017. The new alcohol policy measures raise the legal age for alcohol use, restrict hours of alcohol sales and ban alcohol advertising...| Movendi International
The latest World Health Organization (WHO) data show that Lithuania is among the top five countries that have reduced alcohol consumption the most over the past five years.| Movendi International
More Lithuanian young people are choosing the alcohol-free way of life, proving the efficacy of the Lithuanian alcohol policy model. Improved alcohol policy laws were adopted by Lithuania in June 2017. But there have been talks recently of weakening this policy model. However, that is not what the public wants. The Lithuanian people support the current effective alcohol policy model which protects their youth and children from harm.| Movendi International
The speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) Viktorija Čmilyte-Nielsen has said the country's modern laws should be reviewed. Currently, Lithuania has comprehensive, world-class alcohol laws in place since 2017. The new laws are showing positive effects already. Yet the speaker believes the laws need reviewing and "replacing."| Movendi International
Movendi International has released a brand new episode of the Alcohol Issues podcast. For this fifth episode, we are talking with Nijole Gostautaite Midttun, the President of the Lithuanian Tobacco and Alcohol Control Coalition (NTAKK), about Lithuania is one of the most remarkable success stories of alcohol policy-making in the world. The latest podcast episode also discusses four new weekly highlights regarding alcohol issues in policy, science and industry revelations. In policy news, we t...| Movendi International
