Privatization postponed? Ontario's experience with convergent interests and extensive alcohol marketing

Sober Reflections: Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 175-200

  Giesbrecht, Norman ^a   Stoduto, Gina ^b   Kavanagh, Lynn ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b CAMH   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

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