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The Czech Republic “won” the 25th place out of 30 “competing” European countries regarding its smoking habits. The report included factors such as protection of non-smokers in public places, access to treatment for addicts, regulation of advertising as well as level of taxes on tobacco products. The countries that ranked even lower the CR were:

• Germany
• Austria
• Luxemburg

The author of the article, Ian Willougby, hopes that smoking will be banned all together and brings up a good point:”If the Irish can do it, if the Italians can do it, why can’t the Czechs do it?”

What do you think? Do you think that the Czechs can do it? (more…)

The Czechs start to fancy the organic foods and I am not just talking about the basic stuff such as meat, eggs or the vegetables but also the so-called bio-wine, bio-beer and bio-bread! They have spent this year 49% of their grocery money on organic food which equals to 760 million Czech crowns. This amount should increase to 3.2 milliard Czech crowns by the year 2011. The Czech Republic is therefore becoming the “star child” when it comes to ecology. Compared to other EU countries, the amount of its organically-worked land is far above the EU average, equaling about 7.2% of the total amount of the agricultural land. And that’s not all! (more…)

What is the Czech style of living compared to other European states?

• The person-to-area ratio is smaller compared to the European average. The Czechs occupy on average an area of 49 meter squared with 2.7 rooms and 2.6 people living in them. And what nation is living in the rooms size of an airport hallway? The Danish people! The average size of their house/flat is 110 meters squared with only 2.2 people living in it!
• Regarding the basic home equipment such as running water,a toilet or a shower, those homes - although tiny - seem to be doing very well. About 95% of all of the Czech households have all of these necessities which puts us on the same level with the well-to-do states such as Austria and France. Country that is not doing that well in this area is Romania, for example, where only 53% of households have an actual running water. (more…)
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A recently published study called The Facts About the Czech Health Care uncovers a disturbing statistics about the Czech lifestyle. First of all, the alcohol consumption is higher only in Hungary, France and Luxembourg. You are probably thinking, “well, a little bit of beer here and there is not going to kill anybody..”. Sure, but if you add the second sad statistics of this study, which is the fact that every fourth Czech is a habitual smoker, then situation becomes a little more serious. Maybe if the eating habits were more promising yet the study points out that “the fruit and vegetable consumption in the Czech Republic is almost the lowest in all of Europe”. The scientist go further on, predicting if this trend continues into the future by the year of 2010 every fifth Czech will end up being obese. What is the most common cause of death in the Czech Republic?

• more than 50% of deaths are caused by heart diseases
• 2nd most common death cause is cancer (more…)
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