The bill’s sponsor says too few people know about the link between alcohol consumption and cancer.
Bottles of wine line shelves at a Fred Meyer grocery store in Anchorage on June 29, 2022. A bill pending in the Alaska Legislature would require posted warnings about the links between alcohol consumption and cancer. , would require businesses that sell alcoholic beverages post signs warning of the cancer link. The cancer message, as proposed by the bill, would augment the currently required message warning that consumption of alcohol during pregnancy can cause birth defects.
Gray and his aide David Song discussed the public-awareness gap during a hearing on Monday in the second committee. “The question that comes to my mind is: How much obligation does the state have to inform people of the risks of legal activities?” Saddler said. Gray said a constituent of his, a breast cancer survivor, brought up another concern: Although only a light drinker, he said, she worried that she and others might be blamed for bringing their cancers on themselves.
Replacing just one set of signs – the point-of-sale warning about health effects — would have cost under $10,000, too little to warrant a fiscal note describing costs to the state, Gray said. But replacing two types of signs, along with the need to mail new signs to remote sites, brings the estimated cost to around $25,000, Joan Wilson, executive director of the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, said at Monday’s hearing.
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