Irving Selikoff showed synergy between tobacco smoking and asbestos work

Irving Selikoff's monumental studies showed, first, the greatly increased mortality experience of insulation workers, and later, the synergistic relationship between tobacco smoking and asbestos work.

The pioneering work of British, South African, and Italian investigators laid the foundation for the definitive investigations by Irving Selikoff and his colleagues of insulation workers in the United States.

The health consequences of the use of asbestos in contemporary industrial society have been amply documented in the world scientific literature. The toll of illnesses and deaths among asbestos workers in mining, construction, and heavy industry is well known.

These risks affect not only asbestos workers, but their families and neighbors (from material on clothing or plant emissions), users of products that contain asbestos, and the public at large.

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