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Article: Smoking more common among nursing than medical students.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 3, 2003
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2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nursing students are more likely to smoke cigarettes and to be more severely nicotine-dependent than medical students, says a study published in the October 2003 issue of Chest.
The study found that four times as many nursing students smoke cigarettes than medical students, nearly twice as many nursing students are former smokers, and the proportion of female nursing students who smoked was much higher than that of their male colleagues. The study also found that the smoking rate among medical students has significantly decreased in the last decade and that medical students who do smoke are less nicotine dependent than ...