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Letter: Acronymism

Published 16 April 2008

From Chris Mulligan

You mention the Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment, a group funded by the tobacco industry that attacks health “puritanism” (16 February, p 11). Was this a case of acronymal nominative determinism?

New York City, US

Issue no. 2652 published 19 April 2008

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