title: Smoking habits of sixth year medical students and anti-smoking measures in Portugal.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the smoking habits of 6th year Portuguese medical students and assess their knowledge and acceptance of anti-smoking measures and how they felt these would impact on public health.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study, in which a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire was made available online to the target population (6th year Portuguese medical students). The relationships between some of the variables were analysed using contingency tables and the chi2 test, with p<0.05 taken as statistically significant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We obtained 255 answers to our questionnaire. We found an 18.04% prevalence of smokers. The majority of smokers smoked 1 - 10 cigarettes per day, with men smoking more, and most of them had begun their habit between 13 and 18 years of age, with women beginning later. 36.96% of smokers had already made an attempt to quit smoking.
authors: Alunos do 6. ano de Medicina, da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Lisboa / 6th year medical students, Lisbon School of Medicine.
authors: André
authors: A
authors: Borges
authors: Filipa
authors: F
authors: Marques
authors: José
authors: J
authors: Lima
authors: Luís
authors: L
authors: Costa
authors: Patrícia
authors: P
authors: Gonçalves
authors: Rui
authors: R
authors: Fernandes
authors: Nídia
authors: N
authors: Gonçalves
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011174:Portugal; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D013337:Students, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires