Health taxes are powerful policies to reduce the consumption of harmful products such as alcohol. Well-designed alcohol taxes that are set high enough to raise retail prices substantially can help governments around the world take important steps toward tackling the harms of alcohol—from the 2.6 million deaths it causes each year to the immense community and family violence it fuels. Improved alcohol taxes also present significant opportunities to raise new revenues to fund health and social programs. Yet a new report finds that an overwhelming majority of countries are largely failing to embrace this smart public health policy.

On Sept. 3, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. GMT/ 9 a.m. ET, join Economics for Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health—a partner in the RESET Alcohol initiative, led by Vital Strategies—and special guests for a webinar launching the inaugural Alcohol Tax Scorecard. This new report that grades 168 countries on the design of their alcohol excise taxes across three core components offers the most comprehensive picture yet of how alcohol taxation policies measure up around the world.