Who is responsible for the public's health? The role of the alcohol industry in the WHO global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol.

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Published in Addiction on October 25, 2013

Authors

Thomas Babor1, Wayne Hall, Keith Humphreys, Peter Miller, Nancy Petry, Robert West

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Community Medicine & Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA. babor@nso.uchc.edu.

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