At the heart of current debates in public health policy lie claims about curtailment of freedoms. The public regulation of lifestyle behaviours to prevent harms and promote desirable outcomes attracts charges of interference in the freedoms of individuals to choose how they live. Recent plans to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol (MUP) in the UK have met widespread opposition from alcohol producers and retailers. Their criticisms of MUP draw extensively on concepts of freedom. This paper considers whether the idea of freedom invoked by alcohol industry opponents of MUP is as straightforwardly friendly to their cause as they assume. It concludes it is not.

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酒类最低单位定价政策辩论中的自由理念

当前公共卫生政策辩论的核心是关于限制自由的主张。为防止伤害和促进理想结果而对生活方式行为进行的公共监管引起了对个人选择生活方式自由的干预的指控。最近在英国引入酒类最低单价 (MUP) 的计划遭到了酒类生产商和零售商的广泛反对。他们对 MUP 的批评广泛地借鉴了自由的概念。本文考虑了 MUP 的酒精行业反对者所援引的自由理念是否如他们所假设的那样对他们的事业直接友好。它得出的结论不是。