Fox News Poll: After Surgeon General’s alcohol warning, will voters still raise a glass?

Despite wide elector support of the U.S. Surgeon General’s advisory connected the nexus betwixt intoxicant and cancer, a bulk says they won’t skip blessed hour, according to a caller Fox News survey.

Nearly 8 successful 10 voters o.k. of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s January 3 proposal to enactment crab informing labels connected alcoholic beverages, portion 2 successful 10 disapprove.  

Approval is 70% oregon higher among astir each demographic groups, with the objection of men ages 45 and implicit (68%). And enactment goes supra 80% among self-described "very" liberals (85%), women ages 45+ (82%), municipality voters and White evangelical Christians (81% each).  

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Despite the caller advisory, two-thirds (66%) accidental it won’t punctual them to person less cocktails, portion astir one-third accidental it volition (31%).

Stock prices for assorted brew and liquor companies saw a dip soon aft the Surgeon General’s announcement, but it’s unclear erstwhile oregon if the advisory labels volition beryllium implemented. 

Those astir apt to trim their intoxicant depletion due to the fact that of the announcement see Hispanic voters (42%), precise liberals (42%), men nether 45 (42%), and voters nether 30 (40%). Voters with household incomes of $100,000 oregon much (74%), voters 65 and implicit (73%), those surviving successful agrarian areas (72%), and White men (71%) are among those astir apt to accidental they won’t.

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The survey, released Thursday, besides finds that by conscionable a splash much voters similar vino (24%) than brew (21%) oregon hard intoxicant (19%). Although the largest fig (35%) says they don’t portion intoxicant astatine each -- adjacent erstwhile it isn’t adust January.  Wine is the astir fashionable prime among women, portion for men it’s beer.  

Wine drinkers (37%) are much apt to accidental they volition alteration their behaviour due to the fact that of the Surgeon General’s informing than those favoring brew (26%) and liquor (22%).

Conducted January 10-13, 2025 nether the absorption of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a illustration of 922 registered voters randomly selected from a nationalist elector file. Respondents spoke with unrecorded interviewers connected landlines (114) and cellphones (638) oregon completed the survey online aft receiving a substance (170). Results based connected the afloat illustration person a borderline of sampling mistake of ±3 percent points. Sampling mistake associated with results among subgroup is higher. In summation to sampling error, question wording and bid tin power results. Weights are mostly applied to age, race, education, and country variables to guarantee the demographics of respondents are typical of the registered elector population. Sources for processing value targets see the American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and elector record data. 

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