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40% Latvians smoke at least one cigarette a day in 2011
Nina Kolyako, BC, Riga, 23.09.2012.
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Research on addictions conducted in 2011 by the Preventive Medicine Center hass 40% of Latvia's inhabitants saying that they smoke at least one cigarette a day.
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35% say they are regular smokers, and 56% of them in turn smoke over half a pack or 10 cigarettes a day. 9% reveal that they smoke a pack a day, informs LETA.
53% of able-bodied (work age) males in Latvia smoke cigarettes regularly, females by comparison only 18%.