Consultations for cervical smears in general practice: a missed opportunity for smoking cessation advice?

Smoking status and general practitioner advice about smoking (n = 2050)

	n	%	(95% CI)^1-151
Women asked smoking status (n = 2030)^1-150	608	30.0	(28.0–31.9)
Total who smoke at all (n = 2040)^1-150	477	23.4	(21.6–25.2)
Smokers asked smoking status (n = 477)	200	41.9	(37.5–46.3)
Smokers who recalled being advised to stop smoking (n = 477)	161	34.0	(29.8–38.3)

↵1-150 Denominators vary due to missing data.
↵1-151 Adjusted for clustering within GPs using STATA statistical package.
CI = confidence intervals.

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