Alliance House Foundation

Promoting & supporting an #alcoholfree lifestyle. Tag us in your alcohol related posts!

[The Time Keeper @_time_keeper]

The Coffee Palace, Townsend Street, Dublin. The Coffee Palace was run by the Dublin Total Abstinence Society. It included hotel accommodation, coffee booths, and a ‘temperance hall’. In 1915, Coffee Palace was closed and the building was subsequently demolished.

[Padraic Guilfoyle @drinkawaste]

SuperValu "Ooh La La" French wine sale. No mention of alcohol causes cancer in this commercial on Instagram. https://t.co/YvfxSvqRVg

[IAS @InstAlcStud]

Lots of misinformation in the media about how much whisky is taxed – pushed by the Scotch Whisky Association to lobby for cuts.

❌ Claim: “75% of a bottle of whisky is tax.”
✅ Reality: Duty is a fixed charge per litre of alcohol. All 70cl bottles at 40% pay £9.18 in duty (🧵)

[IAS @InstAlcStud]

Awareness that alcohol causes cancer is low even among breast cancer survivors.

🎙️Listen to our latest podcast with Jem Roberts and Tabbin Almond where we discussed Ireland's labelling delays and the 10 Year Health Plan failures🎙️

Links: https://t.co/GTeK3Va12T

[IAS @InstAlcStud]

“Discreditation. Complaints. Legal threats. Surveillance.”

Dr Karen Evans-Reeves and Dr Gemma Mitchell describe 6 ways the alcohol industry and front groups try to silence those protecting public health.

More in our latest blog: https://t.co/TZ55vOXJiM @BathTR @ismh_uos

[lucas 🎺🇨🇦 @theLUCASTDS]

@very_srius_prsn @MemeTheVan Turns out the Temperance movement was right too

[North Yorkshire Archives @nyccarchives]

New blog and foyer exhibition! Temperance & the Demon Drink - showcasing a selection of records from our archive collections relating to the drinking of alcohol and the rise of the temperance movement 🍺

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

This 1902 Hotwells drinking fountain was installed to mark the retirement of Bristolian temperance advocate Simon Short (1826-1925).
Short was a proponent of the “Coffee Tavern Movement” which sought to promote coffee shops instead of pubs as places for recreation and socialising

[Balance North East @BalanceNE]

Brilliant opening presentation from @petticrewmark at the @ADPHUK #ADPHConf2022 conference and how alcohol industry uses tobacco industry strategies. Avoid talking about harms especially cancer, risks to pregnancy, and effective policy levers.

[IAS @InstAlcStud]

Alcohol multinationals disproportionately receive revenue from harmful drinking.

These companies are profit-driven and should not be involved in health policy at all.

#AlcoholRightToKnow @AwarhEurope

[IAS @InstAlcStud]

Adrian Chiles writes: "The capacity to achieve intoxication without the benefit of alcohol is surely a life skill worth acquiring. I’m getting there. Whether I can achieve intoxication without the benefit of football is another matter."

https://t.co/HcpWLtUp7E

[IAS @InstAlcStud]

The production and consumption of alcohol adversely impacts 13 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Despite this, many alcohol companies position themselves as engines of development and align their (CSR) activities with the SDGs.

Read our report: https://t.co/9lWKT77llI

[Christian Wakeford MP @Christian4BuryS]

Pleased to have attended a meeting at the Treasury this morning with the Exchequer Secretary on Alcohol Harm.

There is an alcohol harm crisis right now and alcohol duty being frozen has cost £8.7billion. The recent reforms were step one but it needs to continue

[South Pennines Park @South_Pennines]

A moorland walk to a temperance bar: Mr Fitzpatrick’s, #Rawtenstall https://t.co/KhR6IeJ8Cv

[Knowledge of London @Knowledgepoint]

Brandon a Mineral Water Manufacture and a Temperance Pub at 112-114 Virginia Road, Bethnal Green. Not sure why they have pictures displayed on the outside wall of the building.

[Propagandopolis @propagandopolis]

American anti-alcohol print from 1887 showing a man tobogganing into alcoholism and death. Published by the National Temperance Society.

[Demon Drink Project @demon_drink]

Out next week - the first major study rediscovering the forgotten writers of the temperance world, and their radical passion for social change. (Excuse the pride:this was a lockdown book)

[Movendi International @Movendi_Int]

💥 CHECK OUT #AlcoholIssues Newsletter - No. 35 👉🏿 https://t.co/qFBTLhIJdb

✅ Stay informed about the latest #alcoholpolicy & #science highlights!

#BigAlcoholExposed #AlcPolPrio #alcoholawareness #AlcoholPolicy @KulikovUNIATF @ncdalliance @KristinSperkova @fscarfe @CCDH_GWSPH

[IAS @InstAlcStud]

We are calling on @Netflix to exclude alcohol ads from their ad-supported model, to be released Nov 3.

Frequent exposure to alcohol ads is linked to increased alcohol use and harm #NoAlcoholAdsNetflix

Read @FAREAustralia's open letter signed by >50 orgs: https://t.co/yoT4DGRbNi