An emerging trend to tax sugar sweetened beverages and other junk foods: overregulation or an effective way to modify dietary behaviours?
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Paving the way to a sugar-sweetened beverages tax in Estonia
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Public Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1101-1262,1464-360X
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.721