Green-Tobacco Sickness
- 30 September 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 229 (14) , 1880-1883
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1974.03230520022024
Abstract
Tobacco-associated occupational illness occurs regularly in North Carolina tobacco fields. Green-tobacco sickness is a self-limited illness characterized by pallor, vomiting, and prostration. It occurs principally in young men who handle uncured tobacco leaves in the fields. A survey among 53 harvesters who had had green-tobacco sickness and 49 control harvesters was undertaken to define and quantify the symptom complex. The illness was correlated with cropping (picking) the tobacco while it was wet; the absorption of nicotine from the tobacco leaf is the probable cause. Cigarette smoking affords protection against the illness. (JAMA229:1880-1883, 1974)Keywords
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