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Alcohol availability and consumption: Iowa sales data revisited
H A Mulford1, J Ledolter, J L Fitzgerald
1Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol
|September 1, 1992
Abstract:
Recent changes in Iowa liquor control laws ended the 51-year-old state alcohol monopoly distribution system and turned the sales of bottled wine and spirits over to the private sector. The resulting increase in the availability of these beverages provided a unique opportunity to study the relationship between increased wine and spirits availability and changes in their consumption. Time series analyses of monthly sales (apparent consumption) trends showed that the increased availability had no lasting impact on consumption.