Discussion
It is evident that primary health care physicians play an important role in decreasing smoking rates among patients [20].
Further, their personal smoking habits have been shown to affect how frequently they provide cessation-related advice [8–10].
Our study has revealed that 20% of male physicians and 3% of female physicians are current smokers, and that waterpipe is the most common form of tobacco smoking among both genders.
These results also suggest that the physician population is one of the first in which waterpipe smoking prevalence has surpassed that of cigarette smoking.