Green Tobacco Sickness Among Tobacco Harvesters in a Korean Village

Background: Green tobacco sickness (GTS), an occupational disease in tobacco harvesters, is a form of acute nicotine intoxication by nicotine absorption through the skin from the wet green tobacco plant. We carried out a questionnaire survey and measured cotinine concentration, the metabolic product...

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Main Authors: Sung-Jun Park, Hyun-Sul Lim, Kwan Lee, Seok-Ju Yoo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-03-01
Series:Safety and Health at Work
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209379111730166X