Passive drinking

{{Short description|Adverse effects of alcohol consumption on others}}

File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.svg study ranking various drugs (legal and illegal) based on statements by drug-harm experts. This study rated alcohol the most harmful drug overall, and the only drug more harmful to others than to the users themselves.{{cite journal | vauthors = Nutt DJ, King LA, Phillips LD | title = Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis | journal = Lancet | volume = 376 | issue = 9752 | pages = 1558–1565 | date = November 2010 | pmid = 21036393 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6 | s2cid = 5667719 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.690.1283 }}]]

Passive drinking, analogous to passive smoking, refers to the adverse consequences experienced by those around someone who is experiencing alcohol intoxication. These include the unborn fetus and children of parents who drink excessively, drunk drivers, accidents, domestic violence and alcohol-related sexual assaults.{{Cite web

|last = Smith

|first = Rebecca

|date = 16 March 2010

|title = 'Passive drinking' is blighting the nation, Sir Liam Donaldson warns

|publisher = The Daily Telegraph

|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5000433/Passive-drinking-is-blighting-the-nation-Sir-Liam-Donaldson-warns.html

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090320213019/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5000433/Passive-drinking-is-blighting-the-nation-Sir-Liam-Donaldson-warns.html

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|archive-date = 20 March 2009

|access-date = 2010-05-30

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On 2 February 2010 Eurocare, the European Alcohol Policy Alliance, organised a seminar on "The Social Cost of Alcohol : Passive drinking".{{Cite web

|date = 25 February 2010

|title = The Social Cost of Alcohol : Passive drinking – Eurocare event

|publisher = European Alcohol Policy Alliance

|url = http://www.epha.org/a/3885

|access-date = 2010-05-30

}} On 21 May 2010 the World Health Organization reached a consensus at the World Health Assembly on a resolution to confront the harmful use of alcohol.{{Cite web

|date = 21 May 2010

|title = Call for action to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

|publisher = World Health Organization

|url =https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2010/alcohol_20100521/en/index.html

|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100523235141/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2010/alcohol_20100521/en/index.html

|url-status =dead

|archive-date =23 May 2010

|access-date = 2010-05-30

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