The historical decline of tobacco smoking among Australian physicians: 1964–1997

Table 1 Historical research on tobacco use among Australian physicians

Authors	Year^a	Participants and Recruitment Method	Number	Response
Young & Ward [34]	1997	General practitioners who were on a commercial mailing list	311	73%
Young & Ward [33]	1996	General practitioners in Australia (selection method not specified)	855	67%
McCall et al [32]	1994	General practitioners registered with the Commonwealth Department of Human Services	318	59%
Roche et al [31]	1990	Physicians enrolled in a postgraduate family medicine training program	908	55%
Roche et al [30]	1991	Physicians enrolled in various postgraduate training programs	1361	55%
Nyman [29]	1989	Readers of the journal: Australian Family Physician	185	14%
Anonymous [28]	1982	Readers of the Australian Medical Association Gazette	1500	N/A^b
Dodds et al [27]	1977	Physicians registered with the Medical Board of Victoria	275	80%
Rankin et al [26]	1974	Physicians listed in the Medical Directory of Australia (1972 Edition)	1276	69%
Anonymous [25]	1970	Physicians who were registered as medical practitioners in Australia	5708	40%
Anonymous [24]	1964	Physicians who were registered as medical practitioners in Australia	4348	33%

^a Year the study was undertaken, not the publication year, ^b The exact response rate was not stated for this article, only that 1500 questionnaires were mailed out

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