Seasonal changes in alcohol consumption and related problems in Iowa, 1979-1980.
@article{Fitzgerald1984SeasonalCI,
title={Seasonal changes in alcohol consumption and related problems in Iowa, 1979-1980.},
author={John Lawrence Fitzgerald and Harold A. Mulford},
journal={Journal of studies on alcohol},
year={1984},
volume={45 4},
pages={
363-8
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6114184}
}There is much to be learned about how aggregate sales changes come about and how sales changes interact with other factors to affect problem-drinking rates.
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