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Research Article

Participation with alcohol marketing and user-created promotion on social media, and the association with higher-risk alcohol consumption and brand identification among adolescents in the UK

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Pages 515-526 | Received 09 Apr 2018, Accepted 03 Dec 2018, Published online: 19 Feb 2019

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