Table 3.
Smoking behaviours among medical doctors in different Western countries.
| Current smoker (%) | Former smoker (%) | Never smoker (%) | |
| Swiss primary care physicians (2002)7 (n = 1784) | 12 1 | 22 | 66 |
| American cardiologist (2004)7 (n = 471) [7] | 2 1 | 14 | 84 |
| American physicians (1989–90)7 (n = 5426) [13] | 11 2 | 40 | 49 |
| Finnish general practitioners (2001)7 (n = 697) [28] | 13 3 | - | - |
| Estonian physicians (2002)7 (n = 2668) [25] | 13 4 | 20 | 67 |
| Finnish physicians (2001)7 (n = 2075) [29] | 15 3 | 37 | 48 |
| German physicians (1999)7 (n = 1144) [8] | 18 4 | 22 | 60 |
| Japanese physicians (2000)7 (n = 3771) [22] | 20 3 | 28 | 52 |
| Italian chest physicians (1995)7 (n = 605) [30] | 25 5 | 34 | 41 |
| Italian physicians (1999)7 (n = 501) [24] | 28 3 | 27 | 46 |
| French general practitioners (1998)7 (n = 2073) [26] | 32 6 | 46 | 22 |
| Bosnian general practitioners (2002)7 (n = 110) [23] | 40 5 | 14 | 46 |
1: daily smoker.
2: smoking at least once in the past month.
3: daily or occasional smoker.
4: current smoker.
5: definition not available in the paper.
6: regular or occasional smoker.
7: year of survey.