4 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1972
E. C. Hammond and I. J. Selikoff, 'Relation of Cigarette Smoking to Risk of Death of Asbestos-Associated Disease among Insulation Workers in the United States' (IARC Scientific Publication No. 8) (1972)
…two cohorts of asbestos insulation workers, 370 men in the New York-New Jersey locals followed 1963-1971 and 17,800 men in the US and Canadian union followed 1967-1971, and analyzing deaths by smoking…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1979
E. C. Hammond, I. J. Selikoff and H. Seidman, 'Asbestos Exposure, Cigarette Smoking and Death Rates,' Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1979)
Published journal article reporting a mortality study of 17,800 asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada followed from 1967 through 1976. It compares their death rates by cause and smoking history with a control group from an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1971
I. J. Selikoff, E. C. Hammond and J. Churg, Neoplasia Risk Associated with Occupational Exposure to Airborne Inorganic Fibers (1971)
Reprint of a 1971 conference paper on cancer risk from airborne inorganic fibers. It reviews neoplasms associated with asbestos and other mineral fibers and tabulates deaths among 632 New York-New Jersey insulation workers, including 916 consecutive…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 3, 1979
Selikoff and Hammond, 'Asbestos and Smoking,' JAMA Editorial (1979)
A JAMA editorial by Selikoff and Hammond on the interaction of asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking in lung cancer and asbestosis mortality among asbestos insulation workers. It recommends that exposed workers not smoke and receive periodic…