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Sugar-sweetened beverages as the new tobacco: examining a proposed tax policy through a Canadian social justice lens
Natalie D. Riediger and Andrea E. Bombak
CMAJ March 19, 2018 190 (11) E327-E330; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170379
Natalie D. Riediger
Department of Community Health Sciences (Riediger); Ongomiizwin Research (Riediger), Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences (Riediger), Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man.; Division of Community Health (Bombak), School of Health Sciences, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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Department of Community Health Sciences (Riediger); Ongomiizwin Research (Riediger), Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences (Riediger), Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man.; Division of Community Health (Bombak), School of Health Sciences, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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Sugar-sweetened beverages as the new tobacco: examining a proposed tax policy through a Canadian social justice lens
Natalie D. Riediger, Andrea E. Bombak
CMAJ Mar 2018, 190 (11) E327-E330; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.170379
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