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Doctors Want to Prescribe Drugs Against Smoking, Survey Says

Sept. 05, 2006

Doctors around the world wanted more effective medicine to help smokers quit smoking and wanted the habit classified as a medical condition, a survey found.

Large majorities -- 81 percent -- considered smoking to be a chronic medical condition and wanted more effective drugs, the survey found. There were big differences between countries in how likely doctors were to talk with patients about tobacco use, with 68 percent of North American doctors having such conversations compared with only 14 percent in Japan and Korea.

The study of 2,836 physicians from 16 countries, conducted by Harris Interactive, was sponsored by Pfizer Inc., maker of anti-smoking medicine Chantix, the drugmaker said in a statement distributed yesterday by Canada NewsWire.

Doctors in Canada and the U.S. were the most likely to prescribe drugs to help people quit, with 57 percent doing so, compared with 29 percent globally and 21 percent in Europe, the survey found.

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