Renal fluid excretion in some groups of female tobacco workers before and after work

Occupational physiology and occupational pathology are increasingly beginning to address issues related to the functional state of a particular organ in workers of various professions.

Work, Play, and Performance in the Southern Tobacco Warehouse

This paper examines tobacco warehouses in the southern United States as sites of both work and play. Using a performative approach in the study of architecture that is rooted in folklife methodology, the essay claims these quotidian working structures as places of celebratory potential amid the strictures of Jim Crow spatial segregation. In particular, it focuses on a series of massive dances held in the elaborately decorated warehouses during the early-to-mid-20th century. During these dances, Black celebrants turned the restrictive social and economic working spaces of the tobacco warehouse into places of radical potential and pleasure. The claims of this essay are supported by both conventional architectural documentation and the oral testimonies of a variety of tobacco workers, musicians, and dancers, who made use of the warehouses for a variety of often conflicting purposes. Told together, their narratives emphasize both spatialized resistance to segregation, and the importance of the ephemeral archives of individual stories and memories to the study of vernacular architectural history.

Health and Socio Economic Status of Tobacco Workers in Malawi

Tobacco is the major money crop of Malawi and it contributed the maximum of the national income. Malawi is the major contributor in the tobacco production of the world and many of the cigarette companies are using the burley leaf tobacco produced in the Malawian farm due to its rich taste and quality. Tobacco is a major smoking device used by millions of people all over the Malawi who can’t afford the pleasure of smoking a cigarette because of the price that is prohibitive taking in to consideration the economic status of the majority of smokers all over the nation. Smoking tobacco suited the financial strength of the emerging industries workers and agricultural labourers. In this study made an attempt to study the health and socioeconomic aspects of the tobacco workers, to find out the nature of work conditions of the tobacco workers, to study the awareness of tobacco workers with regard to family problems and to find out their participation in religious gathering. This study found that tobacco workers were lives in most of the rural areas of Malawi through secondary data pertained from the Government and Non Government sources. Population method was adopted to collect the information from the tobacco workers in the study area. This study found that Tobacco is not only injurious to health of the smokers and also to the makers of the Tobacco (Tobacco workers) too. Socio-economic status of the tobacco worker also very poor when compare with the minimum wages in the study area. These tobacco workers are forced to engage this sector due to non availability of other kind of jobs and lack of skills to engage in the other jobs. This study concludes that Government and Non Governmental organizations should take necessary actions to improve the health and socio economic status through providing vocational training and guidance to enhance their skills and help them in self employment opportunities. Further, it opens up new avenues for the future researchers to contribute more on this to enhance the health condition from all the parts of the world.

O3D.2 45 years of follow-up for cancer for jobs and occupational exposures in 15 millions in five nordic countries – NOCCA

IntroductionA majority of established human carcinogens have been discovered in the occupational setting. For most cancers, including even frequent cancers like colorectal, prostate and breast, however, only a minor fraction of the overall causes has been identified so far. Therefore, it is obvious than even more carcinogens can be discovered through studies of occupation and cancer. This can be facilitated by the use of big high quality data.MethodsOur study covers 15 million working-aged persons who participated in population censuses between 1960 and 1990 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. These persons have been followed-up for cancer and divided into 70 cancer categories. Further, country and calendar time specific job exposure matrices (JEM) are developed for 30 documented and potential carcinogens, including e.g. asbestos, formaldehyde, wood dust, quartz and several specific metals and organic solvents.ResultsIn total 2.8 million incident cancer cases are diagnosed in these people during the follow-up. Even for all cancers combined, there is a wide statistically significant variation among men from a relative risk (RR) of 0.79 in domestic assistants to 1.48 in waiters. The occupations with the highest RR also includes workers producing beverage and tobacco, seamen and chimney sweeps. Among women, the overall RR varied from 0.58 in seafarers to 1.27 in tobacco workers. Low RRs were found for farmers, gardeners and forestry workers in both genders. We have also estimated RRs after exposure to e.g. various metals, solvents, formaldehyde and wood dust. Additional examples from the over 50 papers published so far based on this comprehensive on-going cohort will be presented.ConclusionsThe present study shows that the risk of cancer is highly dependent on occupation and specific occupational exposures.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES AND RESPIRATORY FUNCTIONS OF TOBACCO WORKERS

<p>The aim of this research was to establish the relationship between some anthropometric measurements and peak expiratory flow rate of tobacco factory workers. Eighty permanent workers who had been employed for at least three years with no history of cardiovascular disease were involved with the study. The measured anthropometric data (chest width and depth, height and weight) were analyzed using SPSS (V 16.0) to develop predictive models for PEFR of tobacco factory workers. It was concluded that the developed models could determine the PEFR of workers in a tobacco manufacturing company.</p>

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES AND RESPIRATORY FUNCTIONS OF TOBACCO WORKERS

The aim of this research was to establish the relationship between some anthropometric measurements and peak expiratory flow rate of tobacco factory workers. Eighty permanent workers who had been employed for at least three years with no history of cardiovascular disease were involved with the study. The measured anthropometric data (chest width and depth, height and weight) were analyzed using SPSS (V 16.0) to develop predictive models for PEFR of tobacco factory workers. It was concluded that the developed models could determine the PEFR of workers in a tobacco manufacturing company.