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Chamber and committees

The Don't Pink My Drink Campaign

  • Submitted by: Monica Lennon, Central Scotland, Scottish Labour.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2018
  • Motion reference: S5M-14855

That this Parliament welcomes the campaign, #DontPinkMyDrink, which was launched by Professor Carol Emslie of Glasgow Caledonian University at the eighth European Alcohol Policy Conference in Edinburgh on 20 November 2018; understands the campaign is in response to evidence of the alcohol industry increasingly targeting women through gender-specific design, packaging and advertising; believes that gendered-alcohol marketing reinforces stereotypes and risks subverting positive progress on gender equality; recognises that Alcohol Focus Scotland is calling for more public protection from alcohol advertising, including a phased removal of alcohol-related sponsorship of sports, music and cultural events, and for an independent body to regulate marketing; believes that levels of drinking in Scotland remain too high, with the Scottish Health Survey recording that more than one-in-five people drink at a level than the recommended weekly guidelines; calls on the alcohol industry to refrain from what it sees as cynical marketing tactics that link alcohol to equality and empowerment, and welcomes the commitments by the Scottish Government in its paper, Alcohol Framework 2018: Preventing Harm, which seek to change what it sees as Scotland’s difficult relationship with alcohol.


Supported by: Clare Adamson, Colin Beattie, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Neil Findlay, Emma Harper, Bill Kidd, Gail Ross, David Stewart, Sandra White