Health Professionals’ Role in Helping Patients Quit Tobacco Use: Attitudes among Iranian Dental Students

Table 1

Attitudinal questions (in their order in the questionnaire).

	(1) Do health professionals serve as “role models” for their patients and the public?
	(2) Should health professionals routinely advise their patients who smoke to quit smoking?
	(3) Should health professionals routinely advise their patients who use other tobacco products to quit using these products?
	(4) Do health professionals have a role in giving advice or information about smoking cessation to patients?
	(5) Are patient's chances of quitting smoking increased if a health professional advises him or her to quit?
	(6) Are health professionals who smoke cigarettes less likely to advise patients to stop smoking?
	(7) Are health professionals who use other tobacco products (waterpipes, pipes, chewing tobacco, snuff, bidis, or cigars) less likely to advise patients to stop smoking?