Migrant farmworkers and green tobacco sickness: New issues for an understudied disease

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 307-315

  Quandt, Sara A ^a   Arcury, Thomas A ^a   Preisser, John S ^b   Norton, Deborah ^c   Austin, Colin ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Agriculture; Environmental justice; Hispanic; Nicotine; Occupational risk; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FARMER'S LUNG; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; NICOTINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANTS, TOXIC; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 0033951442     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(200003)37:3<307::AID-AJIM10>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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