Effect of smoking on attack rates of pulmonary and pleural lesions related to exposure to asbestos dust.
Open Access
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Vol. 37 (3) , 268-272
- https://doi.org/10.1136/oem.37.3.268
Abstract
In follow-up studies of samples of employees at two of Her Majesty's Dockyards the prevalence of asbestos-related lesions in smokers and ex-smokers was statistically significantly higher than in non-smokers even when differences in age and exposure risk were considered.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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