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Want to help influence research & be rewarded for your time? The University of Sheffield, University of Stirling & UCL are recruiting members for a public involvement group to shape a study on the public health impact of changes to the way the UK Government taxes alcohol. More info: tinyurl.com/yunxkp28

People living in Wales - this is a great opportunity to join one of our public involvement groups 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👀👇

When’s it going to stop, America? Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ohio, Missouri, Idaho. 2024. Disgraceful #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

📢 Out now Addiction Journal. Trial of adding alcohol-free beer options in pubs, saw ⬇️ sales of alcoholic beer, and no change in £ revenue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Led by TARG Bristol Angela Attwood et al, partnering with Bristol City Council

🚨New paper alert🚨 from our National Institute for Health and Care Research alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks project. This editorial in Addiction Journal led by Nathan Critchlow discusses terminology for advertising of no/lo products that share branding with standard alcoholic drinks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

Last call for this seminar on all things alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks which is ***Wednesday this week (24th)*** There will be colourful diagrams, graphs and an ostrich.

Aged 18+ and drink 14 or more units of alcohol a week? You are invited to take part in a small group discussion to share your experiences with drinking alcohol and any attempts to drink less. You will be reimbursed for your time. Find out more here👉rb.gy/y7alaw

Happy polling day! The only time that wearing red suits me! 🗳️

Meet Sunny (deliberately spelt incorrectly) and Cher - putting myself forward as an early contender for the winner of the Faculty sunflower growing competition. SCHARR ScHARR Public Health SARG - SCHARR

Our new systematic review, led by Jess Dunphy, examines trends in young adults' alcohol consumption tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Michael Livingston John Holmes @SARG_ScHARR Youth Drinking in Decline

After a 2-month-long personal housing crisis, Maple and I have found somewhere to live and are moving to Sheffield on 15th June. Recommendations for coffee shops, snooker/pool clubs, quiz nights, leisure centres (with pool and sauna) and wild swimming spots near Walkley, welcome.

New paper out in Addiction Journal led by @Katie1East as part of her Society for the Study of Addiction Fellowship: Harm perceptions across vaping product features: An on-line cross-sectional survey of adults who smoke and/or vape in the United Kingdom onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

It feels like Christmas and the Tory turkey is about to get stuffed! Memes anyone? #GE24 #GeneralElection2024 #ToriesOut

Alcohol-free beer making up 8% of total beer production in Germany is actually pretty remarkable. It's more like 1-2% in the UK (of sales not production). Reasons for cautious optimism or at least curiosity about potential public health benefits as this market continues to grow.

🚨New paper alert!!!🚨 Who drinks alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks at different frequencies and in different settings in GB? Read our findings here: doi.org/10.1111/dar.13… Thank you to the fab team John Holmes @Inge_Kersbergen Jamie Brown and our funders National Institute for Health and Care Research

I'm giving a talk for Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub on the evening of the 16th September about alcohol and health. It may feature the odd graph or two. Feel free to come along if that sounds like your kind of thing. Details: aske-skeptics.org.uk/sheffield.html

After 21 years of remarkable leadership, our CEO Deborah Arnott has officially retired. Her tireless work has reshaped tobacco control, accompanied by substantial declines in smoking prevalence. We thank Deborah for her incredible impact and wish her the very best in retirement.

New SARG research commissioned by Public Health Scotland and published today has found that increasing the price of the cheapest tobacco products through minimum pricing could help to reduce smoking rates and improve health in Scotland sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/minimum-pricin…

Snippets of messages sent to my phone this morning from friends and family: "Don't bother turning on the TV." "Don't look at the news. For the next four years." "Never underestimate the capacity for human stupidity." "Terrifying" "WTF" "Ouch" Emojis including: ☹️😭🤮🤯😡

Heading to Edinburgh for pleasure (not work) next week (Weds to Sat). If any of the gang from SPECTRUM Research Consortium fancy a catch up/coffee, it would great to see some friendly faces - drop me a message.