Title: Tobacco-smoking prevalence among physicians and nurses in countries with different tobacco-control activities
Abstract: The aim of the study was to compare rates of smokers among physicians and nurses in the USA, a country with relatively high levels of activity in tobacco control, with those in a country with low levels of tobacco-control efforts. Analysis of interview data in three cross-sectional population studies was carried out. The tobacco-smoking rate of the physicians in the country with low prevention activity dropped to 18%, which is still much higher than the smoking rate in the US and other European countries. In conclusion, prevention activity on a national level might contribute to reducing the rate of current smokers among physicians to a large extent, less so in nurses.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-05-23
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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