Briefing: Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink: how commercial interests impact mental health - May 2025
This briefing from ASH, the Alcohol Health Alliance, the Obesity Health Alliance and the Centre for Mental Health sets out how commercial interests impact mental health, with a specific focus on tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink.
Report: Killer Tactics - August 2024
This report, developed by Action on Smoking and Health, Obesity Health Alliance and Alcohol Health Alliance, highlights the common strategies used by the tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink industries to delay and undermine public health policies in order to protect their business models. The report sets out the serious health harms caused by these unhealthy products as well as the high levels of public support for protecting health policy from the influence of industry.
Report: Holding us back: tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink - August 2023
This report from ASH, the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) and the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) calls on Government to put in place a comprehensive strategy to prevent ill-health from commercially driven risk factors, and redress the balance between industry influence and the public’s health. Big businesses are currently profiting from ill-health caused by smoking, drinking alcohol and eating unhealthy foods, while the public pay the price in poor health, higher taxes and an under-performing economy. The wage penalty, unemployment and economic inactivity caused by tobacco, alcohol and obesity costs the UK economy an eye-watering £31bn and has led to an estimated 459,000 people out of work. Meanwhile each year, the industries which sell these products make an estimated £53bn of combined industry revenue from sales at levels harmful to health.