Asbestos and other workplace risk factors for lung illness

Unfortunately, certain workplaces contain substances that can expose people who work there to the risk of a lung illness. These substances include asbestos, arsenic and chromium.

All types of asbestos fibers can cause lung cancer but long-term exposure to crocidolite or amosite asbestos carries the highest risk of lung cancer. Asbestos diseases have a long latency period and so it is possible to develop lung cancer decades after exposure to asbestos.

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