RESUMEN
This study aimed to investigate the attitude towards smoking in "Ahli Sporting Club" as a leading club in sports in Egypt. A total of 480 subjects was approached by a preset and a pretested questionnaire prepared for the objective with an adequate response rate of 93%. The mean age of the players was statistically significantly less than that of their responsible technical and administrative staff, being 23.7, 43.5 and 51.6 years, respectively. Males constituted 77.7% of the total subjects. Football showed the highest figure in the activity, 38.3% of the whole group and 41.0% of the players. The current smokers in the whole group constituted 12.3% of the total subjects, which was much lower than the figure in the Egyptian community as a whole and also in many other professions. The study concluded that the attitude towards smoking in sports needs a proper attention, especially among the responsible staff. Although it is less encountered than among other jobs, it is an important sector in the population, especially among the youth