World Health Organization : Year 1992 ; World Health Organization, Occupational Health Toh, No. 92.1: The Interaction of Smoking and Workplace Hazards

By K. Rothwell

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1992 ; World Health Organization, Occupational Health Toh, No. 92.1: The Interaction of Smoking and Workplace Hazards
Author:	K. Rothwell
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Rothwell, B. K. (n.d.). World Health Organization : Year 1992 ; World Health Organization, Occupational Health Toh, No. 92.1. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Table of Contents
Contents Proface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 . The nature of cigarette smoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2 . Diseases caused by workplace hazards and/or smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 . The combined effect of smoking and workplace hazards on health . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.1. The interaction of tobacco smoke and exposure to workplace hazards . . . . 13 Occupational exposure to: Coal Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Asbestos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Non asbestos fibrous minerals 22 Silica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Ionizing radiations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2b Non-radioactive mineral dusts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 BioLogIcal dusts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Byssinosis and other effects of textiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Exposure to dust in woodworking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Allerglc response to vegetable dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Other diseases caused by biological agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Allergic alveolitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Waterborne agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Inorganic elements and compounds: Antimony. Arsenic. Cadmium. Chromium. Cobalt. Lead. Manganese. Nickel . Metal welding. Sulphur dioxide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Organic chemical compounds: Dyestuffs . Rubber.Pesticides. Chloromethyl ethers. Petroleum industry products. aromatic hydrocarbons. carbon disulphide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.2. Chemical compounds present in both tobacco smoke and the workplace . . . . 47 3.3. Smoking materials acting as vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3 . 4 . Exposure to Vibration and Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Smoke as an atmospheric pollutant 51 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The effects of involuntary smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5 Tobacco Chewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 6 . Some economic effects of smoking in the workplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 7 . Summary and conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61