Most doctors I know smoke. It's the pressure of the job, I guess, particularly when you're up against malpractice suits, unpaid insurance-related services, blah, blah, blah.

Hell, I'd rather they smoke then abuse the medication they dole out to their patients.

I read that Marlboros were originally pink, and marketed to women because they had a filter. When it became clear that there was a connection between smoking and lung cancer, and that a filtered cigarette could reduce the risk of lung-cancer, the ad campaign for Marlboros was changed to market them to men.