[Smoking and admission to a department of internal medicine at a county hospital].

On a random day in 1998 all hospitalized unselected patients on the ward of internal medicine, Silkeborg County Hospital were evaluated in relation to possible tobacco-related disease. A total of 56 (71%) of 79 had a smoking-related main diagnosis and of these 23 (29%) of 79 were statistically diseased as a direct consequence of their present and previous use of tobacco.