What are the risks in tobacco processing?

I am working as in tobacco processing industry.Here there are tobacco dust, humid tobacco smell(unburnt)and we always touch tobacco materials?What are the risk? Khomenko AG, Ozerova LV, Occupation exogenous allergic alveolitis [Russian], Probl Tuberk, 1996;:72-75, Popovic V, Arandelovic M, Jovanovic J, Momcilovic O, Veselic E, Dordevic D, Popovic A, Todorovska D, The effect of occupational noxae in the tobacco industry on pulmonary function in exposed workers. [SerboCroation (Roman)], Arh Hig Rada Toksikol, 1992;43:37-45, Lander F, Jepsen JR, Gravesen S, Allergic alveolitis and late asthmatic reaction due to molds in the tobacco industry, Allergy, 1988;43:74-76, Lander F, Gravesen S, Respiratory disorder among tobacco workers, Brit J Industr Med, 1988;45:500-502, Viegi G, Paggiaro PL, Begliomini E, Vaghetti E, Paoletti P, Giuntini C, Respiratory effects of occupational exposure to tobacco dust, Brit J Industr Med, 1986;43:802-808, Lander F, The incidence of acute and chronic pulmonary disease in the tobacco industry, Ugeskr Laeger, 1986;148:1697-1700, Lander F, Jepsen JR, Graveson S, Late asthmatic reaction caused by micro fungae in the tobacco industry, Ugeskr Laeger, 1985;147:2918-2919, Huuskonen MS, Husman K, Jarvisalo J, Extrinsic allergic alveolitis in the tobacco industry, Brit J Industr Med, 1984;41:77-83, Gleich GJ, Welsh PW, Yunginger JW, Hyatt RE, Catlett JB, Allergy to tobacco: an occupational hazard, N Engl J Med, 1980;302:617-619, Ghosh SK, Parikh JR, Gokani VN, Rao MN, Kashyap SK, Chatterjee SK, Studies on occupational health problems in agricultural tobacco workers, J Soc Occup Med, 1980;29:113-117, Valic F, Berilic D, Butkovic D, Respiratory response to tobacco dust exposure, Am Rev Respir Dis, 1976;113:751-754, Truda IG, Clinicopathological comparisons in respiratory pathology in tobacco growers and in workers engaged in the tobacco industry, Gig Tr Prof Zabol (Moskva), 1975;1:25-2*,

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This is a quick answer without full research. Workers in tobacco processsing can get asthma or alveolitis from the exposures, thought mainly to be due to bacteria and fungae growing on the tobacco

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