TY - JOUR T1 - Sandblasting jeans kills young people JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 885 LP - 886 DO - 10.1183/09031936.06.00066406 VL - 28 IS - 4 AU - A. Çimrin AU - T. Sigsgaard AU - B. Nemery Y1 - 2006/10/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/28/4/885.2.abstract N2 - To the Editors: At this year’s annual congress of the Turkish Thoracic Society (TTS), a mini-symposium was devoted to the occurrence of silicosis in the textile sector in Turkey. Clinicians from four cities reported on a total of 35 subjects with silicosis: 20, 10, four and one cases from Erzurum, Izmir, Tokat and Diyarbakir, respectively 1–4. Nearly all patients were young males in their early twenties or even younger. They had been employed, often as undeclared workers, for only … ER -