Swedish Match

In South Africa traditional or home-made products are more commonly used in rural areas while products manufactured by small cottage industries are dominant in urban areas. One of the small smokeless industries was bought by Swedish Match in 1999 and they ve continued to manufacture the same products used for both oral and nasal application. Unlike many other countries, nasal use predominates among the 13.2% of black women in South Africa who use smokeless tobacco, 80% nasally and 20% orally. Overall usage is approximately 10%, but reaches 18.6% among black children (Ayo-Yusuf et al. 2004). Only about 1% of South African men use snuff (Ayo-Yusuf et al. 2008). 

Swedish Matches are made in Sweden almost exclusively of white poplar wood, it being the cheapest. Blocks of the length of the match are cut by machinery from the round logs and splintered, the splints kiln-dried and ooated with paraffine. The end to be covered with the inflammable compound is dipped in a solution of paraffine in benaine, when they are again dried. They are then dipped into the inflammable compound, which should... 

Striking Surface of Swedish Matches consists of a compound prepared by... 

Auramine is used widely in dyeing cotton, but still more for paper. The Swedish match factories alone use eight carloads per year for coloring match boxes. 

Swedish green (Scheele s green). —schwedl-sches Hblzchen, n. safety match. Schwedlsch, Schwedische, n. Swedish (language). 

Our analysis also included Persson s Swedish study, which used matched patients (179). Despite some methodological flaws, we feel it was a valid study and should be counted even though it only met criteria for a class II design. Their findings were also consistent with the overall results. 

Olsson and Brandt (1980) carried out a hospital-based case-control study of Hodgkin s disease and chemical exposures in Lund, Sweden. Twenty-five consecutive male cases aged 20-65 years were included. Two neighbourhood-matched controls were selected for each case from the Swedish population register. Interviews with study subjects focused on their detailed job history, and in particular exposure to solvents. Interview data were supplemented with visits to employers in some cases. Four of the cases and none of the controls had been exposed to xylene. All exposed cases were also exposed to other solvents. [The Working Group noted the opportunity for information bias, since the interviewer was not blind to disease status or to the study objectives ]... 

A second prerequisite for a role of EMF in aluminium transport from the E to the O horizon is that hyphae growing in the E horizon are attached to EM root tips in the O horizon. Work on the vertical distribution of hyphae and EM root tips in a Swedish podzol profile showed that several EM species live in both the O horizon and the E horizon (Landeweert et al., 2003, Rosling et al., 2003). For Dermocybe, Russula, Piloderma and Cortinarius, the clones found in the extracted DNA from the E horizon match with DNA from EM root tips in the O horizon of the same soil profile. That suggests that at least some EM root tips from the O horizon could have extramatrical hyphae growing into the mineral soil. 

GEM-AQ only has a simplified aqueous phase reaction module for oxidation of SO2 to sulphate. Thus, for the gas phase species, wet deposition processes are treated in a simphfied way. Only below-cloud scavenging of gas phase species is considered in the model. The efficiency of the rainout is assumed to be proportional to the precipitation rate and a species-specific scavenging coefficient. The coefficients apphed are the same as those used in the MATCH model (Multiscale Atmospheric Transport and Chemistry Model) used by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHl) (Langner et al. 1998). 

Swedish and other safety-matches arc supposed to strike only on the prepared surfaces on their boxes, but as a matter of fact they will ignite on several striking surfaces, such as hard wood, smooth hard paper, fine grained and not quite smooth stones, glass, porcelain, etc. 

Ratios of dissolved HHCB/AHTN are included in Table 2. The ratios for the Canadian samples (1.9 to 2.5) matched closely those reported for the North Sea, and other remote sampling locations and the US (Bester et al. 1998a Heberer et al. 1999 Osemwengie and Steinberg 2001), while those for the Swedish samples (3.7 to 5.3) were closer to highly contaminated samples from Berlin (Heberer et al. 1999 Fromme et al. 2001) and other STP-effluents (Dsikowitzky et al. 2002). 

As I mentioned already, the red form of phosphorus can be used for production of matches and gunpowder. As a result, producing phosphorus garnered a lot of interest by states and by private industry. For years, enlisted soldiers in Europe had to give urine as part of their service. You can imagine the stench of these phosphorus products The scientist who ridded the world from this stench was the great Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who developed a method to extract phosphorus from bone ashes and plants. Sweden became a major exporter of matches in the nineteenth century. 

Swedish smelter workers Nested case-control study N = 3,979 primary smelter workers workers with lung cancer (N = 46) compared with 141 age-matched male controls Follow-up of earlier reports Cancer cases showed a higher smoking rate versus controls. OR = 4.0 (1.6—10.1, 0.003). Air As, but not air Pb indices higher among the smokers with lung cancer smoking and cumulative workplace As exposure accounted for the cancers Lundstrom et al. (2006)... 

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