Smoking habits and lifetime occupational exposure to gases or dusts, including asbestos and quartz, in a Norwegian community.

Bakke, Per; Gulsvik, Amund; Eide, Geir Egil; Hanoa, Rolf

doi:10.5271/sjweh.1794

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“…Our estimates of subjects ever having been exposed to specific agents and work processes potentially harmful to the lungs indicate that occupational exposure to these risk factors is widespread in the community. The estimates of lifetime prevalences of asbestos and quartz exposure were higher than those obtained from the same study population through a self-administered postal questionnaire (11). The postal questionnaire was primarily a questionnaire on respiratory disorders and smoking habits and contained six questions on asbestos and quartz exposure.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Among the men exposure to one, two, three, four , five, and six of the agents or work processes was reported by 19,12,11,8,4, and 2%, respectively. The most commonly reported combinations of two agents or work processes were welding and metal gases and asbestos and welding.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The questionnaire contained questions on smoking habits, past or present occupational dust or gas exposure, including asbestos and quartz (11), and respiratory symptoms and physician's diagnosis of asthma (12). The response rate was 90% of the sample.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The subjects were classified as smokers if they were smoking daily at the time of the study (11). Nonsmokers were defined as subjects who had never smoked daily.…”

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“…Questions on smoking habits, previously used for Norwegian populations, were applied (24). Current smokers were defined as daily smokers.…”

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A smoking intervention counseling program was applied among asbestos‐exposed male smokers younger than 65 years of age to examine the effect of an intervention based on risk communication. Intervention subjects (n = 431) were invited to a health status checkup combined with physician‐delivered smoking intervention counseling. Control subjects (n = 141) received no intervention. After 1 year, 5% of the responders in the intervention group, versus 3.4% in the control group, had stopped smoking. Corresponding conservative estimates were 3.5% and 2.6%, respectively. The quitters had been exposed to a higher “dose” of asbestos but had smoked less, and for a shorter period, than had the continuing smokers. Counseling by a general physician increased successful quitting threefold, compared to counseling by a physician in a specialized institution. These results suggest a potential for smoking cessation among subjects at high risk of lung cancer due to asbestos exposure. General practice care may be an appropriate setting both for identification of such subjects and for intervention. Am. J. Ind. Med. 31:705–712, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Smoking habits and lifetime occupational exposure to gases or dusts, including asbestos and quartz, in a Norwegian community.

Cited by 28 publications

References 15 publications

Occupational airborne exposure of the general population of a Norwegian county.

Occupational airborne exposure of the general population of a Norwegian county.

Chronic bronchitis in farmers

Smoking intervention in subjects at risk of asbestos-related lung cancer

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