World Health Organization : Year 1996 ; Pcs Ehc, No. 96.49: International Programme on Chemical Safety Environmental Health Criteria Health Effects of Interactions Arising from Tobacco Use and Exposure to Chemical, Physical or Biological Agents

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1996 ; Pcs Ehc, No. 96.49: International Programme on Chemical Safety Environmental Health Criteria Health Effects of Interactions Arising from Tobacco Use and Exposure to Chemical, Physical or Biological Agents
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
There has been concern for many years concerning the potential of tobacco use to cause a range of adverse health effects, including augmenting the adverse effects of other chemical and physical agents. It is recognized that chemical pollution in the workplace can cause disease, incapacity and early death in many occupations. From observations in the workplace, it has become clear that smoking in the presence of certain chemical/physical agents represents more than an exposure to two types of hazard, one attributable to the agent and the other to tobacco smoke. Adverse health effects can arise sometimes from a combination of effects of tobacco smoke and a hazard or sometimes from a synergistic interaction of the two. Chemical pollution of the environment can present health hazards to the general population. Tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, is the principal cause of several major diseases in the general population.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS I. HEALTH EFFECTS OF INTERACTIONS ARISING FROM TOBACCO 1 USE AND EXPOSURE TO CHEMICAL Or PHYSICAL AGENTS OR BIOLOGICAL DUSTS 1.1 General introduction 1 1.2 Combined effects of tobacco smoking and other exposures 3 1.3 Composition of tobacco leaf and tobacco smoke 3 1.4 Mainstream tobacco smoke 4 1.5 Cigarette sidestream smoke 5 1,6 Environmental tobacco smoke 5 2 .I Effects of ways of cigarette smoking on smoke tox icity 6 2. COMBINED EFFECTS ON HEALTH OF TOBACCO USE AND EXPOSURE 8 TO OTHER CHEMICALS 2.1 Introduction 8 2.1.1 Effects of tobacco on lung clearance of particles 9 2.2. Interactions between tobacco smoke and other agents 9 2.1.1 Asbestos 9 2.2.1.1 Asbestos and lung cancer 11 2.2.1.2 Asbestos and pleural mesothelioma 14 2.2.1.3 Asbestos and other forms of cancer 15 2.2.1.4 Asbestosis 15 2.2.1.5 Conclusion 16 2.3 Non-asbestos fibres 16 2.3.1 Fibrous minerals 16 2.3.1.1 Wollastonite 17 2.3.1,2 Glass fibre 17 2.3.1.3 Rockwool, slagwool and ceramic fibres 18 2.3.1.4 Conclusion 18 2.4 Other inorganic chemical agents 19 2.4.1 Arsenic 19 2.4.2 Beryllium 22 2.4.3 Other inorganic elements and compounds 23 2.5 Organic chemical agents 23 2.5.1 Chloromethyl ethers 24 2.5.2 Dyestuffs 24 2.5.3 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 26 2.5.4 Ethanol 28 2.5.5 Other organic compounds 28 2.6 Physical agents 28 2.6.1 Radiation 28 2.6.1.1 Radon in mines (high linear energy transfer (LET) ol-radiation) 29 2.6.1.2 Environmental radon (high linear energy transfer (LET) 30 a-radiation) 2.6.1.3 Atomic bomb site radiation (low linear energy transfer 32 (LET) radiation) 2.6.1.4 Therapeutic X-rays (mainly low linear energy transfer 32 (LET) radiation) 2.6.1.5 Nuclear power plant 32 2.6,1.6 Conclusion 33