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The Freedom to Drink and the Freedom to Sell Drink: A Hundred Years of Danish Alcohol-Control Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Kim Moeller
Kim Moeller*
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Aarhus University, Denmark
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , July 2012 , pp. 499 - 517
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Copyright © Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press 2012

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