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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 50210 |
| CIS number |
88-1198 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0096-1736 - Journal of Occupational Medicine |
| Year |
1987 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Enterline P.E., Marsh G.M., Esmen N.A., Henderson V.L., Callahan C.M., Paik M. |
| Title |
Some effects of cigarette smoking, arsenic, and SO2 on mortality among US copper smelter workers |
| Bibliographic information |
Oct. 1987, Vol.29, No.10, p.831-838. 19 ref. |
| Abstract |
This is a report on the 1949-1980 mortality experience of 6,078 white male workers who worked for at least 3yrs between 1 January 1946 and 31 December 1976 at 1 or more of 8 copper smelters. The completeness of the cohort was verified statistically, and worker exposures to arsenic, SO2, dust, nickel, cadmium, and lead were estimated from retrospective surveys. By using internal controls, a dose-response relationship for lung cancer was observed with exposure to arsenic and SO2. When cigarette smoking data were included with arsenic and SO2 exposure data in a nested case-control analysis, only smoking and arsenic were statistically significant factors. The arsenic-lung cancer relationship was confined to a single smelter where the raw materials had a high arsenic content. In the remaining smelters, mortality for all causes of death and for all cancer was not high based on comparisons with national, state, and local rates. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
USA; arsenic; copper ores; smelting plants; mortality; sulfur dioxide; smoking |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
report; lung cancer; neoplasms; statistical aspects; dose-response relationship |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Metal production and metalworking
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Industries and occupations
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| Browse category(ies) |
Inorganic substances
Arsenic and compounds
Smoking
Inorganic sulfur compounds
Smelting and refining operations
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