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Cigarette and Cigar Makers and Tobacco Workers

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Tobacco production workers are exposed to a wide array of irritant and/or sensitizing agents, some of which are natural components of the plant while others are added during the farming and manufacturing stages. Contact dermatitis, through either direct or aeromediated mechanisms, is relatively common among harvesters and workers in cigar manufacturing, while it is substantially less frequent in cigarette production plant workers. The sensitizing compound of tobacco is unknown; nicotine, while highly toxic, does not seem to cause sensitization, except in rare cases. Besides natural substances, several compounds are added to tobacco during processing and manufacturing. For this reason, identifying the etiological factors is exceedingly difficult.

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  1. Unite Dermato–Allergologie, Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Christophe J. Le Coz

  2. Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, Dermatological Clinic, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Caterina Foti, Domenico Bonamonte, Gianni Angelini & Paolo Romita

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Swen Malte John

  2. Department of Dermato-allergology, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark

    Jeanne Duus Johansen

  3. Dept. of Dermatology and Allergology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Thomas Rustemeyer

  4. Dept. of Dermatology and Allergology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany

    Peter Elsner

  5. Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Le Coz, C.J., Foti, C., Bonamonte, D., Angelini, G., Romita, P. (2019). Cigarette and Cigar Makers and Tobacco Workers. In: John, S., Johansen, J., Rustemeyer, T., Elsner, P., Maibach, H. (eds) Kanerva’s Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40221-5_140-2

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