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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Patterns of smoking behavior among physicians in Yerevan, Armenia † † Paul C Perrin , Ray M Merrill* and Gordon B Lindsay Address: Department of Health Science, College of Health and Human Performance, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA Email: Paul C Perrin - Paul_Perrin@; Ray M Merrill* - Ray_Merrill@; Gordon B Lindsay - Gordan_Lindsay@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 23 May 2006 Received: 24 February 2006 Accepted: 23 May 2006 BMC Public Health 2006, 6:139 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-139 This article is available from: /1471-2458/6/139 © 2006 Perrin et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Physicians can play an important role in smoking prevention and control. This study will identify smoking prevalence among physicians in Yerevan, Armenia. It will also explore how the smoking behaviors of physicians, their perceived ability to influence patient smoking behavior, and their knowledge about health outcomes related to smoking influence their interaction with patients. Methods: A cross-sectional, self-administered, anonymous survey was conducted in July,