Green tobacco sickness: Occupational nicotine poisoning in tobacco workers

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 384-389

  Ehlers, Janet ^a   Ballard, Terri ^a   Freund, Eugene ^a   Halperin, William ^a   Auslander, Michael ^b   Brandt, Victoria ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Kentucky Dept of Fin Institutions   (United States)

^c Department Bowling Green ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL RECORD; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KENTUCKY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; PLANTS, TOXIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0028807875     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039896.1995.9935972     Document Type: Article

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