Sugar-sweetened Beverage Taxes: Lessons to Date and the Future of Taxation

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2021 Jan 7

PMID 33411708

Citations 37

Authors

Barry M Popkin

Shu Wen Ng

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