I just found this alarming article

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most notably nurses, doctors, and medical students, especially since that category of work holds the highest amount of smokers out of any employ, to my recollection.
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I have no doubt that this is true. I spent most of 2003 in close proximity to nurses 24 hours a day. I was shocked to see how many of them smoked. Obviously, this is only a small sampling of a large population but the reasons I saw for it apply to the industry as a whole. When they would go to have their cigarette, you could see the tension in them as they lit up and the relief they gave themselves with the first puff. I understand the tension they are under but I also see that the tension is often from dealing with people suffering from the ravages that smoking can inflict on the body. One nurse I knew even contemplated starting smoking for that relief. When I saw that, I was furious with her. She did reconsider but I was amazed that she even tried it in the first place.

I would also like to add to this thread that obesity does not belong in the same discussions with those of smoking and drinking. Smoking and drinking are a choice that the body does not require and, in most cases, does not benefit from. Eating is required for the body to function and the struggle is to moderate the fuel that the body is given. If the body required 2 rum and Cokes and a half pack of Marlboros a day, then they would be the same discussion.