The strategies of alcohol industry SAPROs: Inaccurate information, misleading language and the use of confounders to downplay and misrepresent the risk of cancer

Mark Petticrew¹, Nason Maani Hessari¹, Cécile Knai¹, Elisabete Weiderpass^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
⁴ Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
⁵ Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway.

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Mark Petticrew et al. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2018 Mar.

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doi: 10.1111/dar.12677. Epub 2018 Feb 15.

Mark Petticrew¹, Nason Maani Hessari¹, Cécile Knai¹, Elisabete Weiderpass^{2

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¹ Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
⁴ Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
⁵ Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway.

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How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer.
Petticrew M, Maani Hessari N, Knai C, Weiderpass E. Petticrew M, et al. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2018 Mar;37(3):293-303. doi: 10.1111/dar.12596. Epub 2017 Sep 7. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2018. PMID: 28881410

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