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of circumstances that might lead to exposure to ionising radiation include being present during or subsequent to the testing or use of nuclear weapons, undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic medical procedures involving ionising radiation, and being a member of an aircrew, leading to increased levels of exposure to cosmic radiation.
         Note 2: For the purpose of dose reconstruction, dose is calculated as an average over the mass of a specific tissue or organ. If a tissue is exposed to multiple sources of ionising radiation, the various dose estimates for each type of radiation must be combined.

    "death from malignant neoplasm of the lung" in relation to a person includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's malignant neoplasm of the lung;

    "ICD-10-AM code" means a number assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Eighth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2013, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, and having ISBN 978-1-74128-213-9;

    "mist from a strong inorganic acid" means a visible suspension of liquid sulphuric, nitric or hydrochloric acid in gas;

    "MOPP" means chemotherapy involving a combination of mechlorethamine, oncovin, procarbazine and prednisone;

    "pack-year of cigarettes, or the equivalent thereof in other tobacco products" means a calculation of consumption where one pack-year of cigarettes equals 20 tailor-made cigarettes per day for a period of one calendar year, or 7300 cigarettes.  One tailor-made cigarette approximates one gram of tobacco or one gram of cigar or pipe tobacco by weight.  One pack-year of tailor-made cigarettes equates to 7.3 kilograms of smoking tobacco by weight.  Tobacco products mean cigarettes, pipe tobacco or cigars, smoked alone or in any combination;

    "relevant service" means:

    (a) eligible war service (other than operational service) under the VEA;
         (b) defence service (other than hazardous service and British nuclear test defence service) under the VEA; or
    (c) peacetime service under the MRCA;

    "soot" means a carbonaceous by-product material produced from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel or other carbon-containing material, including airborne residual pyrolysed fuel particles such as coal, cenospheres, charred wood, petroleum coke;

    "terminal event" means the proximate or ultimate cause of death and includes:

         (a)                pneumonia;
         (b)               respiratory failure;
         (c)                cardiac arrest;
         (d)               circulatory failure; or
         (e)                cessation of brain function;

    "working as a painter" means applying paint, including solvent- or water-based conventional paint, spray paint, varnish, enamel, lacquer, water-emulsion and solution finish, nonaqueous dispersion or organosol, plastisol, and powder coating, during the course of activities such as building, maintenance and construction, interior and exterior decoration, artistic painting, and wood and metal painting.  This definition includes mixed activities in which application of paint