IN THE ARTICLE entitled 'Patient and doctor perspectives on incorporating smoking cessation into tuberculosis care in Beijing, China' by S. S. Shin, D. Xiao, M. Cao, et al. (Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2012; 16(1): 126-131; http://dx.doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.11.0044), the affiliations for authors M. Cao and Q. Li should have read Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University. The following footnote was also omitted from the title page: 'SSS, DX, MC, CW and QL contributed equally to this study'.