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As future health educators, nursing and physiotherapy students will play an essential role in the prevention of smoking.

To determine the prevalence of smoking among students and to analyse their knowledge of and attitudes towards smoking.

This was a descriptive cross‐sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire and conducted in a Spanish Faculty of Health Sciences in 2013.

247 nursing and physiotherapy students (82.33%) participated in the study. The global prevalence of smoking (18.2%) was lower compare with the general population group of the same age. We have observed statistical significance in relation to previous studies. Nursing and physiotherapy students showed a low nicotine dependence. We found a lack of knowledge about the harmful effects of cigarette consumption on health. Statistically significant results were also found in relation to degree …