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. 2014 Jun 6:348:g3648.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.g3648.

Government support for alcohol industry: promoting exports, jeopardising global health?

Jeff Collin  1 , Emma Johnson  2 , House Officer  3 , Sarah Hill  4
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Government support for alcohol industry: promoting exports, jeopardising global health?

Jeff Collin et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Successive UK governments have actively supported the expansion of alcohol exports. Jeff Collin, Emma Johnson, and Sarah Hill explore the implicit tensions between national economic interests and global health goals

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: This analysis is derived from research supported by the National Cancer Institute of the US National Institutes of Health (grant No RO1CA160695), and reflects discussions in the ESRC seminar series ‘Tobacco and Alcohol: Policy challenges for public and global health’ (grant No ES/L001284/1). JC and SH are members of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (grant No MR/K023195/1).

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