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Migrant Farmworkers and Green Tobacco Sickness: New Issues for an Understudied Disease

Author: Quandt, Sara A.
Date Published: 2000


This study examines migrant and seasonal farmworkers' self reports of Green Tobacco Sickness (GTS), preventative behaviors, and treatments. The study concludes that migrant and seasonal farmworkers are a population at risk for GTS and have little control over work conditions to prevent GTS or seek treatment.

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Number of Pages: 9