Silicosis was a disease of the distant past. Some of us remember stories about underground miners in the mid-20th century, working in terrible conditions in tunnels filled with the dust created from their old-fashioned pneumatic drills with only a cloth to filter the air. These mine workers would end up terribly disabled, slowly dying as their lungs were destroyed by chronic silicosis.
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