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. 2017 Dec 21;37(Suppl Suppl 2):S72–S85. doi: 10.1111/dar.12647

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(a) Support for alcohol policies dealing with purchase age, physical availability and drink driving (%) and 95% error bars [Policy 1: a purchase age of 20 years (18 years for South Africa); Policy 2: restrictions of number of outlets in your community; Policy 3: earlier closing times for bars and nightclubs; Policy 4: earlier closing times for buying alcohol from bottle stores and supermarkets; Policy 7: lowering the blood/breath alcohol limit for drink driving; Policy 8: more random breath testing]. (b) Support for alcohol policies dealing with marketing and price (%) [Policy 5: an increase in the price of alcohol; Policy 6: restrictions on alcohol marketing; Policy 9: an increase in alcohol taxes to pay for alcohol treatment; Policy 10: an increase in alcohol taxes to lower other taxes; Policy 11: an increase in alcohol taxes to pay for any government purpose; Policy 12: taxing drinkers to pay for the cost of alcohol‐related harm to society].