One study (1999) conducted among primary health-care physicians in Bahrain reported that 26.6% of male physicians
smoked tobacco, which is an alarming figure [16].
Another study, using a selective sample of physicians, reported smoking rates as high as 24.0% in 2005 [17].
It is important to monitor the change in smoking habits among the general population as well as individual populations such as primary health care physicians. Hence, we have conducted a cross sectional study to establish the prevalence and patterns of different methods of tobacco smoking among primary health care physicians in Bahrain