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Discover 6 alarming reasons why your mucus turns brown and what this color change means for your health. Learn when to seek medical help immediately.

Brown mucus can also develop due to inhaling certain toxins at work. For example, coal miners develop black lung (pneumoconiosis), which is a severe lung disease caused by coal dust.

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Black lung disease is a job-related illness caused by inhaling coal dust over a long period of time. The condition mainly affects coal miners and is also known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP).

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In coal mining communities, black lung has long been considered an “old man’s disease,” one to be almost expected after enough years underground.

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Trust said the "rare" disease has an average life expectancy of between three-to five years after diagnosis and in the majority of cases, the cause was unknown.

Lung cancer researcher, Bryant Kin, has been diagnosed with the disease despite never smoking himself in his life, he's revealed.

The number of lung cancer cases in people who have never smoked is increasing. The disease is different from lung cancer caused by smoking, so what causes it?