Rookgedrag van Nederlandse huisartsen in de periode 1983-1988

– General practitioners‘ smoking behaviour in The Netherlands is described on the basis of survey data collected in the period 1983-1988. Until 1983 a large majority of the Dutch family physicians were smokers (1957: 82, 1983: 56). The smoking prevalence then was higher among physicians than among the male population. After 1983 a new development set in.

Three inquiries showed that among Dutch physicians the smoking prevalence in 1988 was lower than that among the male general population (29 versus 37). Dutch family physicians have stopped smoking to a larger extent than the physicians in any other EC-country (43 ex-smokers). Young entry-level doctors more and more tend to be never-smokers.