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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the arm of the WHO that deals with cancer, has outlined the policies that work to reduce alcohol consumption, and higher alcohol excise, or alcohol tax, gets the tick of approval. The group, which includes Australian experts, says that based on the evidence they reviewed, the policies that work include alcohol taxes, minimum prices, or minimum age for alcohol purchase or consumption; interventions that reduce density of alcohol outlets and the days or hours of sale; strong bans on alcohol marketing; total bans on sales; and government monopolies or other coordinated multiple alcohol-policy interventions. They say the findings add to the available evidence on the potential for alcohol-policy interventions to reduce the alcohol-attributable cancer burden.
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