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Health Minister Challenges Argentineans To Cut National Smoking Rate By 50 Percent  

Argentinean Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia has challenged the nation to reduce its smoking rate by 50 percent in 2016.

Speaking at the second Argentine Health Congress in Mendoza province, Garcia said liberating Argentineans from the addiction of nicotine addiction 9 years hence will coincide with the country's bicentennial year of independence.

Although 33 percent of the nation's 40.3 million population light cigarettes, the country's smoking rate had gone down from 39.8 percent in 1999.

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