Current cigarette smokers consisted of 2.6% (8.0% males and 0% females) of the population, former cigarette smokers were 3.9% (12.0% males and 0% females) and never smokers were 89.5% (80.0% males and 94.1% females).
Among current cigarette smokers, the mean initiation age was 22 years and the average number of cigarettes smoked per day was 15. The mean age of former cigarette smokers was 51 (9.6) years with a median smoking period of 14 years.
Among male physicians the prevalence of all forms of tobacco smoking was 20% compared with 3% among physicians.
Waterpipe and cigarette smoking were both associated with male gender, P = 0.006 and P = 0.012, respectively.
Tobacco smoking was not associated with age, specialization, marital status or nationality