A new and updated edition of the book Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is now available from Oxford University Press, written by an international group of alcohol researchers under the leadership of Professor Thomas Babor (picture below). The Second Edition of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity has the same scope as the version from 2003; a guide to how to understand alcohol-related harm and how such harm most effectively can be prevented by policy interventions. The authors describe the conceptual basis for