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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Alcohol — Excessive Consumption: Increasing Alcohol Taxes

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: June 2007

Workgroups: Substance Use Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends increasing the unit price of alcohol by raising taxes to reduce heavy drinking and related harms. CPSTF found that these alcohol excise taxes reduce drunk driving, motor vehicle crashes, and deaths. Public health effects are expected to be proportional to the size of the tax increase.

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Objectives related to this resource (2)

Reduce the proportion of people under 21 years who engaged in binge drinking in the past month — SU‑09
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people aged 21 years and over who engaged in binge drinking in the past month — SU‑10
LHI label
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2007). Alcohol - Excessive consumption: Increasing alcohol taxes. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/alcohol-excessive-consumption-increasing-alcohol-taxes