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Jump to full article: Prague Daily Monitor (cz), 2009-05-07
Intro: Czech children are among the youths that smoke the highest number of cigarettes in the world, the daily Lidove noviny (LN) wrote on Wednesday, citing the latest survey of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) based on data from 2005-2006.
Nearly one qarter of 15-year-old Czech girls (23 percent) smoke regularly, which is the second highest number in the world, with the neighbouring Austria being the worst.
Among 15-year old Czech boys, one fifth (20 percent) smoke regularly. The situation is worse only in Austria, Finland and Hungary.
In Sweden and the United States, the number of smokers among children is three times lower than in the Czech Republic, the survey shows.
"The Czechs have figured in top positions in similar surveys for a long time. This is a result of the general atmosphere in society that still does not consider smoking among youths a serious problem," Zdenek Dienstbier, head of the Cancer League organisation, told the paper.
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