Montinari Maria Rosa, Minelli Pierluca, Gianicolo Emilio Antonio Luca
Dipartimento di scienze e tecnologie biologiche e ambientali, Università del Salento, Lecce.
Facoltà di medicina e chirurgia "A. Gemelli", Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma.
Epidemiol Prev. 2018 Jan-Feb;42(1):71-79. doi: 10.19191/EP18.1.AD01.102.
The Province of Lecce (Apulia Region, Southern Italy) is one of the Italian areas where the prevalence of respiratory disease and cancer of the respitartory tract is very high. Through a descriptive analysis of the historical series of tobacco culture indicators, a historical reconstruction of the development of tobacco cultivation in Salento (the area where the Province of Lecce is located) is here presented, in order to provide an additional element of knowledge on potential risk factors for respiratory diseases and cancers. Data regarding extensions in hectares and crop productions in the province of Lecce, in Apulia, and in Italy are from the Chamber of commerce of Lecce province and from the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat). From 1929 to 1993, the province of Lecce provided between 75% and 94% of the tobacco cultivated in Apulia Region and 25% of the national tobacco until 1945. Since the late Sixties, a growing increase in annual average production was observed, reaching 21.5 quintals per hectare in 1991 in Salento. This large tobacco production, associated with intensive use of pesticides, could be an element to be observed in analytical studies as a determining potential for the high prevalence of respiratory diseases and pulmonary cancers in the male population of the province of Lecce.
莱切省（意大利南部普利亚大区）是意大利呼吸道疾病和呼吸道癌症患病率极高的地区之一。通过对烟草种植文化指标历史序列的描述性分析，本文呈现了萨伦托（莱切省所在地区）烟草种植发展的历史重建，以便为呼吸道疾病和癌症的潜在风险因素提供更多知识要素。莱切省、普利亚大区及意大利的公顷种植面积和作物产量数据来自莱切省商会和意大利国家统计局（Istat）。1929年至1993年，莱切省提供了普利亚大区75%至94%的烟草种植量，直至1945年一直提供全国25%的烟草产量。自60年代末以来，年平均产量持续增长，1991年在萨伦托达到每公顷21.5公担。这种大量的烟草生产，加上农药的大量使用，在分析研究中可能是一个值得关注的因素，它可能是导致莱切省男性人群中呼吸道疾病和肺癌高患病率的一个潜在决定性因素。
