Smoking Habits Among Sixth-Year Medical Students in Spain

The perception and knowledge of cardiovascular risk factors among medical students

“…This is in accordance with the data from two Spanish surveys. One of them showed that 27% of final year medical students were smokers and 32.54% of them had started smoking during their medical studies (13). The other showed that the prevalence of smokers among Spanish medical students increased between the first study year and the beginning of the third year from 20% to 31% (14).…”

Dental health behaviour in relation to caries status among medical and dental undergraduate students of Udaipur district, India

“…The habits having adverse effect on oral health like smoking and the use of other tobacco containing products were found to be more common among medical students. One of the reasons for this is the lack of concern about smoking as a health problem within medical schools (20). Increased academic stress also allures many students to take up smoking as a means of coping with the burden.…”

Strengthening public health medicine training for medical students: Development and evaluation of a lifestyle curriculum

“…In Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, and southern India, 11-14% of medical students were reported as regular smokers (Abolfotouh et al 1998;Mostafa & Shokeir 2002;Khan et al 2005;Al-Turki 2006;Mohan et al 2006). In Europe the situation may be worse, with 41% of Greek, 22% Italian, 21-32% Polish, 18% Spanish, and 15% German medical students smoking (Mas et al 2004;Kowalska et al 2006;Rea & Tortorano 2006;Sichletidis et al 2006;Sieminska et al 2006).…”