Physician’s attitude towards smoking: a survey based study in Bangladesh

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), smoking is the major cause of death throughout the world. In order to understand the physician’s attitude towards smoking, we devised various statements and questions for this study to allow us to interpret the attitude of physician’s towards smoking. The establishment of smoking termination programs denote specifically for the physicians which may also be a significant strategy to enhance the patients’ treatment procedure. In this study, 91% physician agreed on the statement that children under age 16 should not have access to purchasing cigarette. About 80% of the surveyed physicians stated that law enforcement to stop buy cigarette is needed for building awareness and keep away people from this deadly disease causing agent. Survey data showed more than 90% of the physicians strongly support that awareness programme should be organised regarding the deadly effects of smoking to raise awareness. Physicians who are current smoker are providing less treatment and precautions than the physicians who are non-smoker or are former smokers. More than 85% physician agreed that academic curriculum should contain the harmful information of smoking thus from the beginning people get used to know the negative impacts of smoking. Although about 90% physician said that they encourage patient not to smoke but the percentage should be 100% as smoking causes various deadly diseases.