Recommended Practices: Green Tobacco Sickness

DHHS (NIOSH) Publication Number 2015-104, March 2015
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Workers who plant, cultivate and harvest tobacco are at risk of suffering from a form of nicotine poisoning known as “Green Tobacco Sickness”. This illness causes nausea and vomiting that can lead to hospitalization and lost work time. Tobacco workers suffering from Green Tobacco Sickness are at greater risk for heat illness—a potentially deadly condition.

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NIOSH [2015]. Recommended practices: Green tobacco sickness. By OSHA; NIOSH. Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-104.

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