Personal and clinical tobacco-related practices and attitudes of U.S. medical students

U.S. medical students are less likely to smoke than other young U.S. adults, but more likely than U.S. physicians, and showed no clear decrease during medical school. It is encouraging that medical students with more exposure appreciate tobacco counseling's importance more, and are more likely to counsel. Students' personal tobacco use was also associated with counseling frequency. These data should help educators seeking better methods to reduce tobacco use.