Building effective policies to reducing non-communicable disease: The relevance of the alcohol experience for curtailing unhealthy diets, physical inactivity and tobacco use

Norman Giesbrecht, PhD1, Esa Osterberg, MSc2, Maria Quadri, BSC3, Robin Room, PhD4, Ingeborg Rossow, PhD, DDS5, Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH6 and Pekka Sulkunen, PhD, Soc Sc7
(1)Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland, (3)Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)Turning Point Alcohol andDrug Centre, Melbourne, Australia, (5)Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, Oslo, Norway, (6)University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, (7)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland