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The silica and carbon in the coal dust cause black lung disease
Also, smoking, which builds up tar in your lungs. The tar turns your lungs black, thats gives you black lung disease, which most people dont realize they have till it turns into lung cancer.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoSince the particles of fine coal dust, which a miner breathes when he is in the mines, cannot be destroyed within the lungs or removed from them, builds up.
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∙ 10y agoNo. Smoking causes a lot of bad things, but black lung disease is caused by inhaling coal dust. Normally it only affects coal miners.
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What causes lung disease?
Smoking, If yo black tail smokes then you be suicidal ~Kooladria
What is Black lung disease associated with the production of?
Coal miners are associated with black lung disease.
What is causes death among smokers?
Smoking can lead to various health conditions that can ultimately result in death, such as lung cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and stroke. The harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke can damage organs and tissues in the body, increasing the risk of developing these life-threatening illnesses.
It is a disease common to coal miners?
Black lung disease: 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. About one of every 20 miners studied in the US has X-ray evidence of black lung disease, a form of pneumoconiosis.
Known as black lung disease?
Black Lungs..silly.
What disease is caused by smoking?
It causes bronchitis and lung cancer and heart disease.
A 45 letter word for Black Lung Disease?
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis it's lung disease caused by volcanic ash.
What is Pneumoconiosis?
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust. Such as Black Lung.
What are some causes of chronic lung disease?
The most prevalent cause of lung disease is most likely smoking. Since smoking inhales smoke to your lungs, it will eventually turn black as you increase the amount you smoke. Also, since smoking is totally preventable, that is why it is prevalent cause.
What lung disease did Benjamin Franklin die from?
Nobody really discusses which lung disease killed Ben Franklin, what we do know is that it was obvously from natural causes
Who discovered Black Lung Disease?
Black lung disease was first reported back in 1822. Doctors were under the impression that the the symptoms from black lung disease were asthma related. and called it miners asthma. However when In 1831, Upon discovering the blackening of miners lungs the term black lung disease was created. this term was replaced once again more then a hundred years later in 1942 to "pneumoconiosis" by British medical professionals working on understanding the dust diseases that affected coal miners. Black lung disease can be the result of inhaling coal dust. Modern medical terminology for this disease is "pneumoconiosis",
What are some symptoms of black lung disease?
Black lung disease frequently does not show any symptoms. When it does, the common ones are shortness of breath, severe cough, and difficulty breathing.
