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How would limiting the hours you can buy >3.5% alcohol have a big impact on lifespan. What data exists that supports your thesis? All the alcoholics seem to eit

How would limiting the hours you can buy >3.5% alcohol have a big impact on lifespan. What data exists that supports your thesis? All the alcoholics seem to either buy <=3.5% or hang around in pubs all day?

Jensson 5y ago
It matters for among other things drinking and driving. You would save way more lives in the long run if you fixed this than had a few covid lockdowns. There are also positive health effects to moving stronger alcohol away from grocery stores, do both and it becomes a no brainer positive effect. And no whining about "freedom", if you think that locking down people is fine in order to save lives then you can manage to buy alcohol at daytime at special stores. > One older overview of systematic reviews found that reducing hours of sale resulted in averting 250 to 750 Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) per one million population (8) > One older systematic review and a recent rapid synthesis found an association between hours of sale of alcohol and increases in alcohol-related harms, including drinking and driving and road accidents, but the association was less clear for the effects on alcohol consumption or health harms > Two older reviews found significant increases in alcohol-related motor casualties and assaults with increased temporal availability https://www.mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-source/product-documents/rapid-responses/examining-the-effectiveness-and-or-cost-effectiveness-of-policies-for-reducing-alcohol-consumption.pdf https://www.mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-source/product-do...
- cinntaile 5y ago
  The tolerance against driving under influence in Sweden is extremely low. The punishments are severe and the allowed alcohol percentage to drive is lower than in most countries in the world. There is just no way that carries over from wherever that study was done, it's not Sweden for sure. If that is the main cause of reduced life expectancy (the measure you use now is something else really but sure lets roll with it) then it's not a good argument to apply to Sweden. I have tried to look for a study focused on the Swedish context but I haven't been able to find one. 750 DALY per 1 million is 0.00075 years per person by the way. That's basically negligible.

Jensson 5y ago

It matters for among other things drinking and driving. You would save way more lives in the long run if you fixed this than had a few covid lockdowns. There are also positive health effects to moving stronger alcohol away from grocery stores, do both and it becomes a no brainer positive effect. And no whining about "freedom", if you think that locking down people is fine in order to save lives then you can manage to buy alcohol at daytime at special stores. > One older overview of systematic reviews found that reducing hours of sale resulted in averting 250 to 750 Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) per one million population (8) > One older systematic review and a recent rapid synthesis found an association between hours of sale of alcohol and increases in alcohol-related harms, including drinking and driving and road accidents, but the association was less clear for the effects on alcohol consumption or health harms > Two older reviews found significant increases in alcohol-related motor casualties and assaults with increased temporal availability https://www.mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-source/product-documents/rapid-responses/examining-the-effectiveness-and-or-cost-effectiveness-of-policies-for-reducing-alcohol-consumption.pdf https://www.mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-source/product-do...

cinntaile 5y ago
The tolerance against driving under influence in Sweden is extremely low. The punishments are severe and the allowed alcohol percentage to drive is lower than in most countries in the world. There is just no way that carries over from wherever that study was done, it's not Sweden for sure. If that is the main cause of reduced life expectancy (the measure you use now is something else really but sure lets roll with it) then it's not a good argument to apply to Sweden. I have tried to look for a study focused on the Swedish context but I haven't been able to find one. 750 DALY per 1 million is 0.00075 years per person by the way. That's basically negligible.