Black lung can mean several things:

• A chronic occupational lung disease contracted by the prolonged breathing of coal mine dust. The silica and carbon in the coal dust

 cause black lung disease. In its early stages, called simple pneumoconiosis, the disease does not prevent the miner from working or     
 carrying on most normal activities. In some miners, the disease never becomes more severe. In other miners, the disease progresses
 from simple to complicated pneumoconiosis, a condition also called progressive massive fibrosis. Pneumoconiosis is not reversible. There
 is no specific treatment. Black lung disease has gone by many names, including anthracosis, black lung, black spittle, coal worker's
 pneumoconiosis, miner's asthma, and silicosis.

• Black lung disease, the common name for coalworker's pneumoconiosis
• Black Lung, an electronic and industrial music project by Australian musician David Thrussell
• The Black Lungs, a side project of Alexisonfire guitarist, Wade MacNeil

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