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Physicians & Tobacco Use
Eva Kralikova
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“In those nations where the tobacco epidemic appears to have peaked and begun to ease, a retrospective view reveals that it was, in nearly all cases, physicians who led the way by changing their behavior from being one of the groups with the highest smoking prevalence to being one of, if not the, lowest.”
- Getting Doctors to Quit and Lead 2002
3. 3 Evolution of the Physician’s Role in Smoking Cessation
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5. 5 Physicians & Tobacco Use
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7. 7 Physicians & Smoking
8. 8 In the United States…
9. 9 Why Target Physicians?
10. 10 Potential Roles for Physicians
11. 11 Reaching Physicians
12. 12 Medical Societies
13. 13 An Example…
14. 14 Medical Schools
15. 15 An Example…
16. 16 Health Ministries
17. 17 Voluntary Health NGO’s
18. 18 More NGO Activities…
19. 19 In Summary…
20. 20 Thank you