Green tobacco

McBride JS, Altman DG, Klein M, White W (1998) Green tobacco sickness. Tob Control 7(3) 294-298... 

Nicotine, absorbed dermally, is probably the cause of green tobacco sickness, a selflimited illness consisting of pallor, vomiting, and prostration, seen in men handling tobacco leaves in the field/... 

Cuticular diterpenes-duvanes and labdanes. Cutler have found that the cuticular diterpenes of green tobacco have both allelopathic and insect-deterrent effects (38). Present in the cuticle are duvane and/or labdane diterpenes (Figure 3) The levels of these specific cuticular components are believed to be responsible for the observed resistance of some types of tobacco to green peach aphids Myzus persicae (Sulzer), tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens (F.), and tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta (L.) (39). 

MMWR (1993). Green tobacco sickness in tobacco harvesters - Kentucky, 1992. 

Parikh, J. R., Gokani, V. N., Doctor, P. B., Kulkarni, P. K., Shah, A. R. and Saiyed, H. N. 2005. Acute and chronic health effects due to green tobacco exposure in agricultural workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 47 494-499. 

NT452 Anon. Green tobacco sickness in to- NT463 bacco harvesters-Kentucky 1992. Morbid Mortal Wkly Rep 1993 42(13) ... 

Ballard, T., ]. Ehlers, E. Freund, M. Auslander, V. Brandt, and W. Halperin. Green tobacco sickness occupational nicotine poisoning in tobacco workers. Arch Environ Health 1995 50(5) 384-389. 

Figure F4.3.4 Absorption spectra of pigments from a green tobacco leaf extracted with 100% acetone. The leaf extract was measured directly after extracting the leaf. Chi a, Chi b, and the carotenoids p-carotene (P-C) and lutein (Lut) were measured after separation by TLC.

Chronic use of snuff has caused oropharyngeal cancer. Tobacco and alcohol ambylopia is seen in chronic smokers who are malnourished and alcoholic. Green tobacco sickness occurs in young workers who do not smoke but work with wet, uncured tobacco. Withdrawal symptoms can occur when use of a tobacco product is stopped. 

Arrendale, R.F, R.F. Severson, O.T. Chortyk, and M.G. Stevenson Isolation and identification of the wax esters from the cuticular waxes of green tobacco leaf 38th Tobacco Chemists Research Conference, Program Booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 38, Paper No. 8, 1984, p. 5 Beitr. Tabakforsch. Int. 14 (1988) 67-84. 

Bodnar, J.A., D.H. Smith, F.D. Jordan, and M.F. Borgerding The determination of beta-carotene and other selected carotenoids in green tobacco 49th Tobacco Chemists Research Conference, Program Booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 49, Paper No. 38, 1995, p. 40, see www. ijrtdocs.com 523002795 -2795. 

Diffee, J.T. Spectrophotometric determination of total carotenoids in cured and green tobacco leaves 28th Tobacco Chemists Research Conference, Program Booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 28, Paper No. 37,1974, p. 26. Diffee, J.T. Automated determination of nicotine alkaloids in cigarette smoke total particulate matter RDM, 1975, No. 20, May 19, see www.ijrtdocs.com 500616251 -6262. 

Herrmann, K. A review of literature on phenols, phenolic acids, and related compounds in green tobacco, cured tobacco, and tobacco smoke Deut. Apotheker Ztg. 101... 

Isolation and identification of the wax esters from the cuticular waxes of green tobacco leaf Beitr. Tabakforsch. 

Shcherbakov, R.A. and N.V. Shalygo Determination of chlorophyll synthetase activity in green tobacco leaves using exogenous Zn-chlorophyllide a J. Appl. Spectroscopy 73 (2006) 103-106. 

Solanesol, an all-trans nonaprenyl alcohol (C ), meanwhile known as a ubiquitous plant metabolite, was discovered in flue-cured tobacco later it was also detected in green tobacco. Its acetate as weU as fatty acid esters, e.g., pahnitate, were also identified (Enzell et al. 1977 and references therein). Plastoquinone A, fulfilling a role in photosynthesis, is the most abundant nonaprenylquinone in N. tabacum (Irvine et al. 1972). Furthermore, ubiquinone-10, characterized by a terpenoid portion composed of ten all head-to-tail hnked isoprene units, was isolated from tobacco (Enzell et al. 1977 and references therein). 

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