Heavy drinkers more likely to buy alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks
According to a report, it is more likely that heavy smokers will receive non -alcoholic and low alcoholic beverages.
As the value of the non -alcoholic beverage market increased, a study from Sheffield University found that one -third of the UK adults had a “no/low” beverage last year, and that the alternatives of these alternatives at “risky” levels are higher.
Household purchasing data showed that 96 percent of households buying non -alcoholic or low alcoholic beverages buy alcoholic ones.
This comes because the non -alcoholic beverage industry has seen more than twice sales values rockets for £ 362 million since 2020. The presence of these drinks in bars, bars and restaurants has also increased and 74 percent of the sales points selling in 2023 are.
Large alcohol brands have directed this growth, because more than that, for the first 100 products, 84 percent of sales, non -alcoholic beers and “Nosecco” stocks stock.
However, consumers pay less for such wine, alcoholic beverages and ready -to -drink drinks than average alcoholic colleagues, while still paying more for no/low beer and apple wine.
Researchers expressed their concerns about pricing inequality, saying that it could weaken potential public health benefits.
Professor John Holmes, Director of the University of Sheffield, said: “People who drink at risky levels have no/low drinks and some no/low options such as wine and souls are now more appropriate.
“However, no/low beer and apple wine remain more expensive. Alcohol can limit the potential public health benefits of these products, since alcohol causes the most damage among groups.”
Professor Adam Briggs, Program Director of NIHR Public Health Research Program, who financed the study, said, “The findings of the study team help to create a much clearer picture of the current No/Lo alcohol market and consumer behavior.
“Deaths caused by alcohol in the UK continues to rise and it is very important to understand how the No/Low alcohol market has changed over time, to develop effective public health policy on alcohol and to ensure that the government’s transition from disease to prevention.”
Meanwhile, BMJ Public Health In addition, in the last five years in the UK, Wales and Scotland, there has been an “important çalısısıyı increase in the use of low and non -alcoholic beverages to prevent alcohol intake between“ risk drinking ”.
The rate of users to make serious initiatives to interrupt alcohol intake increased from 35 percent to 44 percent in 2020 in 2024, while those who use it in any cutting attempt rose from 26 percent to 39 percent.
The findings, tendencies were noticed, especially between the age of 65 years, while the possibility of consuming these drinks of women and richer people was higher than men and the most economically disadvantaged ones.
Researchers participated in the data collected in the UK between October 2020 and August 2024, as part of the cigarette and alcohol vehicle set work that collected monthly data on the societies’ societies and drinking characteristics of adults.
The study said: “Socioeconomic division is potentially relevant, because the damage to alcohol is disproportionately by less advantageous people.
“If alcohol -free/low alcohol beverages are shown to reduce damage, it will be vital to develop targeted interventions to people with less advantageous socioeconomic positions to reduce health inequalities.”
