From a rhetoric of nostalgia to a health-based policy: Tobacco, obesity and the WTO

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 139-154

  Pickett, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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EID: 85050787413     PISSN: 09557571     EISSN: 1474449X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09557570500501903     Document Type: Article

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