Drinking alcohol is just as hard on a person as smoking, especially someone that drinks more than a drink or two a day.

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Mr Zeman is seen as a hard-drinking, chain-smoking politician, known for his witty put-downs of opponents.

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Milos Zeman is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking politician, known for his witty put-downs of his political opponents, our correspondent says.

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It's Ephron's valentine to those hard-charging, heavy-smoking, gruff reporters she met in newsrooms with ink in their veins and booze on their breath.

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"I've learned the hard way that quitting a habit as addictive as smoking is a constant struggle, " the Brooklyn Democrat said.

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Here, in the smoking ruins of Pompeii, sometimes it's hard to see the light.

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And Bulgaria, which found it hard to enforce a partial ban, hopes to achieve a complete prohibition on smoking in enclosed spaces by mid-2012.

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The campaign for Zyban, Glaxo's anti-smoking pill, coincided with 1.3m doctor-visits in April to ask about anti-smoking treatment compared with 1.6m in the whole of 1997, though Glaxo admits the link is hard to prove.

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Smoking kills around 430, 000 Americans a year, but in many cases the link with death is hard to prove: for instance, a smoker who dies of heart disease may also be an overeater (or drinker).

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