tobacco consumption which is partly behind the world s highest lung cancer mortality rate among hungarian men has declined markedly since the mid s but remains at a high level exceeding the oecd average the government has recently taken steps to curtail tobacco and alcohol consumption by increasing excise taxes in november and introducing a smoking ban in public places effective from january around twothirds of hungarian men and half of women are overweight or obese figure high blood pressure affects close to of those aged years and type two diabetes affects approximately of the population hcso