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• Czechs spend more on tobacco, alcohol than on health  

Czechs spend more on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy habits than on the protection of their health, according to a report on health care worked out within the Round table project and released.

Czechs do not like cash payments in health care apart from their health insurance.

"People expect that all their health problems to be solved by somebody else and desirably for free if they pay health insurance," Stanislav Vachek, analyst of the Round table on the future of the health care system's funding project.

In EU countries, households spend two to five percent of their budget on health.

Czech households spent 1.5 times more on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy habits than on health.

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