Resumen de Changes in Smoking Prevalences Among Health Care Professionals From 2003 to 2010-2011

Linda Sarna, Stella Aguinaga Bialous, Karabi Nandy

• Smoking by health care professionals is a barrier to tobacco interventions with patients.1 From 2003 to 2006-2007,2 smoking prevalences among health care professionals demonstrated no significant declines, with the highest prevalence among licensed practical nurses (20.55%) and the lowest prevalence among physicians (2.31%). With the release of 2010-2011 data, we updated these findings to assess changes in smoking status.