Exposure to Chemicals and Suicide Rates
At my previous job as an entry level process chemist there were times where people who were "high" on the corporate ladder would visit the pilot lab to assess its development and make certain that the site was properly situated for what would be future visitations from the FDA. There were several sectors of one which was the mixer room the others were essentially related to engineering processes. These people from corporate would not enter the mixer room while they would be very critical of these other sectors ; evidently none of them wanted to enter a room which stocked various toxic chemicals.
We chemists are exposed to different chemicals each day and are going to be for the time being that one is a chemist. Does this have any influence on our mortality as compared to people of the general population?
Some links related to this matter
Chemists may have higher suicide rates than dentists
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010420.html
Women in chemistry have higher suicide rates
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5DD1031F937A3575BC0A961948260
Possible problems with the research applied contemporarily
http://yarchive.net/chem/chemist_death_rate.html
