[Attitude of medical students in West Germany towards smoking]

In 1988 we did a cross sectional study with 1769 medical students at eight medical schools in the FRG. The objective was to understand the smoking related attitudes of future physicians. The results showed with 40.4% a relatively high proportion of smokers. In the contrary to the demand for effective advice and modell giving by physicians we found a lot of unconsonancy attitudes. As a consequence we claim to intensify the medical education in this field.