Taiwan's Health Minister signs up for smoking cessation challenge

Taiwan's Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), a heavy smoker for 52 years, on Monday signed up for a smoking cessation challenge in the hope of serving as an example to other smokers that it is possible to give up the bad habit.

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