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How Much Saeima Members Smoke 

Jump to full article: NovoNews news agency (lv), 2008-05-08

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Experts predict that a few years after smoking will become the cruelest killer destroying more people than any other disease. The biggest problem of smoking is refusal of smokers to admit that the habit brings them a lot of harm, TV5 said in "News Evening". However, there are many ways to assess the condition of the respiratory system.

Members of the Saeima had a chance to get familiar with one of them right in the legislative body on Wednesday, May 8. Interest of parliamentarians to the purity of their breath was so great that they had to stand in line. 80 people participated in the activity.

Non-smoker Aigars Kalvitis turned out to show the best results. But Jakov Pliner, Alexandr Golubev and Karlis Leiskalns, who smoke a box a day, found themselves on the opposite side of the rating.

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