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Tobacco use among Spanish physicians and medical students

¹ Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
² Universidad de Almería, Spain
³ Área de Medicina, Universidad de Almería, Hospital Universitario Torrecárdenas, Spain

Correspondence to:
Jesús Gil Roales-Nieto
jgil@ual.es

Keywords: Spain; physicians; medical students; tobacco use

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Physicians play two fundamental roles in tobacco control: they act as advisers in informing patients about smoking risk, and they can be models of desired behaviour for their patients.^1–4 Physicians’ smoking status can also influence advice to patients about tobacco smoking.^2,5–7 This study assessed the prevalence of tobacco consumption in a sample of 106 Spanish physicians and 41 final year medical students, and the possible differences between them. The sample was collected in 2003, in several hospitals from seven Spanish cities. The survey response rate was 100% and none of the final completed questionnaires needed to be invalidated. All respondents completed a self-administered questionnaire that gathered information about sex, age, and professional status (physician or student), smoking status (smoker, former smoker, never smoker), and number of cigarettes per day.

Table 1 shows that 47.3% of respondents were current smokers. Including former smokers (20.6%), only 32.1% of the total sample had . . . [Full text of this article]