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• New Red Cross director puts spotlight on smoking 

New Hungarian Red Cross Director Ágnes Czimbalmos has a tough prescription for Hungary: quit smoking and eat more veggies.

"To improve public health in Hungary, yes, I would suggest people give up smoking and eat more vegetables, of course," says Ágnes Czimbalmos, who recently took over Hungary's chapter of the leading global non-profit.

"But," she counters realistically, "It is not that easy." Czimbalmos jokingly points out that an anti-smoking campaign in Hungary could be more successful than unbraiding corruption from the country's graft-ridden health care system.

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