Per-capita Alcohol Consumption and All-cause Male Mortality in Australia, 1911–2006
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عنوان ژورنال: Alcohol and Alcoholism
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0735-0414,1464-3502
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/ags123