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BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2273 (Published 24 October 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2273
Smaller glasses
Removing the largest glasses in restaurants and other licensed premises reduces the amount of wine consumed (PLoS Medhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004313). The same seems to be true for beer. An intervention in which pint sized glasses were replaced with glasses containing two thirds of a pint reduced the amount of beer sold (PLoS Medhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004442). One limitation, however, is that sales of other alcoholic drinks weren’t monitored. So we don’t know whether the total amount of alcohol consumed was less.
The next pandemic
The UK government’s chief medical adviser recently warned that another pandemic as big as covid-19 was a certainty (Spectatorhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-another-pandemic-really-inevitable/). But pandemics require high levels of transmission of infection between humans, …
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