Cigarette Smoking among Medical Students

WE surveyed the cigarette-smoking habits of the 771 students in the University of Michigan Medical School, and correlated them with their personal opinions about the relation of cigarette smoking to carcinoma of the lung, pulmonary emphysema and coronary-artery disease. The findings are summarized in Table 1. Twenty-three per cent of the students were currently smoking cigarettes; 61.8 per cent had never habitually smoked. Both the smokers and the nonsmokers, in equally high percentages, believed that cigarette smoking could cause carcinoma of the lung. A significantly higher percentage of smokers than nonsmokers believed emphysema was causally related to cigarette smoking (p less . . .