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- ↑ "Democracy Institute - TobaccoTactics". tobaccotactics.org. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
- 1 2 Cato Institute, Patrick Basham, accessed 8 August 2010
- ↑ "Democracy Institute, 10 June 2015". Archived from the original on 26 November 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
- ↑ John Luik (2006), "A Picture of Health? Why Graphic Warnings Don't Work Archived 2014-04-03 at the Wayback Machine ", Democracy Institute
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