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Black lung disease is the common name for coal workers' pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of small amounts of coal dust.
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Black lung disease is name for an lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust. After inhaling coal dust it causes your lungs to be black instead of pink and that is where the name for this comes from.
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There are lots of tiny hairs in your lungs and the tubes coated in mucus, called cilia. They catch bacteria and dirt, because it sticks to the mucas. When you smoke these get covered in tar, and therefore cannot catch any bacteria, so they ...
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Answers to Other Common Questions
Yes. The number of women diagnosed with lung disease in the United States is on the rise. The percentage of women dying from lung disease in this country is also increasing. Here are some other reasons why lung disease is an important hea...
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I think about 75 miners per year
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Yes, lung cancer is a lung disease.
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Abramson MJ , Wlodarczyk JH , Saunders NA , Hensley MJ .
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Yes, occupational asthma, one form of asthma, is a lung disease in which the airways overreact to dusts,vapors, gases, or fumes that exist in the workplace. When these irritants are inhaled: Airway inflammation begins. Muscles in the airway...
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Silly human. You can't breath underwater. You're not a fish! Humans aren't made to live underwater!
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Does lead cause lung disease? Not the usual target organ [marrow, kidneys, CNS, sperm] Not a classical carcinogen Yet the lung are the main portal of entry to the body. Non-specific divalent toxicity must have some negative effects! The IA...
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