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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, vol.27, no.5, pp.921-925, 2017 (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, Scopus)
Evidence suggests that advice from motivated physicians to their smoking patients is effective in promoting smoking cessation. Yet, detection rate of smokers is often low and, the proportion of smokers receiving special advice to quit varies. This study aimed to detect how frequently European physicians enquire about their patients' smoking status, and to compare and contrast how (if any) smokers benefit from physicians' enquiry and/or advice about smoking cessation.