Table 2.

RESPONSES TO ATTITUDE ITEMS AMONG 2006 SAMPLE OF US PEDIATRIC DENTISTS (n=1,292)

Feel very well/well prepared to:	%
Ask about tobacco use	31
Advise users to quit	42
Assist users with quitting	10
Attitude items—strongly agreed/agreed that:
It is a pediatric dentist’s responsibility to convince patients who use tobacco to stop	73
It is a pediatric dentist’s responsibility to help patients who wish to stop using tobacco to accomplish this	80
The pediatric dentist should set a good example by not Using tobacco	99
Most adolescents will not give up tobacco use even if their pediatric dentist tells them to	74
Most adolescent tobacco users have a hard time quitting because they are addicted to nicotine	25
Pediatric dentists should be more active than they have Been in speaking before lay groups about tobacco use	68
It is important for a pediatric dentist to ask adolescent patients about tobacco use	85
It is important for a pediatric dentist to encourage adolescent nonusers to remain tobacco free	85