Help or Hindrance? The Alcohol Industry and Alcohol Control in Portugal
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Instrumental Strategies
3.2. Discursive Strategies
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Argument Identified | Number of Occurrences | Reference in the Manuscript |
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Amplification of information | 28 | A23, 29, 38, 39, 87, 88, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 123, 124, 126, 127, 144, 145, 153, 159, 160 |
Community involvement | 44 | A6, 7, 11, 12, 26, 27, 42, 48, 50, 91, 96, 110, 111, 140, 141, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172,173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194 |
Credibility of information | 6 | A114, 128, 142, 143, 146, 162 |
Internal constituency recruitment | 7 | A3, 13, 21, 46, 77, 84, 93 |
Production of information | 1 | A37 |
Relationship with leaders/health organizations | 21 | A1, 30, 31, 33, 40, 44, 45, 57, 78, 82, 83, 85, 94, 95, 113, 132, 133, 139, 163, 184, 195 |
Relationship with media | 1 | A183 |
Argument Identified | Number of Occurrences | Reference in the Manuscript |
---|---|---|
Discriminatory among the producers | 4 | A18, 36, 108, 120 |
Existing regulation is satisfactory | 1 | A10 |
Government is unreasonable | 2 | A119, 155 |
Illicit trade | 5 | A28, 122, 149, 157, 161 |
Importance of the industry to the economy | 9 | A14, 19, 25, 34, 60, 121, 148, 154, 156 |
Interferes with a free market economy | 1 | A35 |
Lost/unreliable tax revenue | 7 | A22, 24, 147, 150, 151, 158, 198 |
Not enough evidence | 1 | A67 |
Policy will not work | 1 | A152 |
Self-regulation/education | 30 | A2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 20, 32, 41, 47, 49, 51, 58, 59, 69, 79, 80, 81, 86, 89, 90, 92, 102, 106, 107, 109, 125, 129, 130, 131 |
Unfair to drinkers | 1 | A72 |
Argument Identified | Number of Occurrences | Reference in the Manuscript |
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Other/culture | 10 | A16, 52, 61, 62, 65, 68, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76 |
Other/pattern of consumption | 7 | A17, 66, 71, 73, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 196 |
Other/suppression of information | 1 | A64 |
Other/war on alcohol | 10 | A43, 53, 54, 55, 56, 63 |
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Paixão, M.M.; Mialon, M. Help or Hindrance? The Alcohol Industry and Alcohol Control in Portugal. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 4554. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224554
Paixão MM, Mialon M. Help or Hindrance? The Alcohol Industry and Alcohol Control in Portugal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(22):4554. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224554
Chicago/Turabian StylePaixão, Maria Margarida, and Mélissa Mialon. 2019. "Help or Hindrance? The Alcohol Industry and Alcohol Control in Portugal" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 22: 4554. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224554
APA StylePaixão, M. M., & Mialon, M. (2019). Help or Hindrance? The Alcohol Industry and Alcohol Control in Portugal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(22), 4554. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224554