| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 11 Other health problems |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Other health problems: Miscellaneous Health Problems |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
| Green tobacco sickness, a type of nicotine poisoning, can occur in tobacco |
| harvesters when nicotine contained in the sap of tobacco leaves is absorbed through |
| the skin. Symptoms are weakness, nausea, vomiting, headache, and difficulty |
| breathing. In Kentucky, about 600 workers during the late summer harvest each |
| season seek emergency care for this condition. |
| Southern Medical Journal, September 1993, p. 989 and Morbidity and Mortality |
| Weekly Report, April 9, 1993, p. 237 |
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| In a study from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine published in the March |
| 2000 issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 41% of tobacco farm |
| workers contracted "green tobacco sickness," a form of acute nicotine poisoning from |
| nicotine absorption from tobacco leaves through the skin, at least once during a |
| summer harvest season. |
| American Medical News, March 6, 2000, p. 4 |
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| Cigarette smoking decreases exhaled nitrogen dioxide. Since nitric oxide is |
| important in defending the respiratory tract against infection, in counteracting |
| bronchoconstriction and vasoconstriction, and in inhibiting platelet aggregation, this |
| effect may contribute to increased risks of chronic respiratory and cardiovascular |
| diseases in cigarette smokers. |
| American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, August 1995, p. 609 |
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