Marty wrote:

"Edward Green" wrote in message
oups.com...

Very loud music has recently been implicated in collapsed lungs.
This
occurs after a small tear in the lung sac allows air into the chest
cavity, which tear can be in turn be caused by gut thumping bass.


Sounds like a job for Myth Busters

Well, the evidence in fact seems to be anecdotal, but not entirely
mythological, and was published in a peer reviewed journal:

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,...w=wn_tophead_8

I do retract my "mechanism" though. That's pure speculation.

As a sound tech, I have had the opportunity to stand in front of some
very
large sub cabinets. These buggers would blow your clothes similar to
having
your back to a 40mph+ wind.
They have left welts on my legs from my jeans snapping on my skin,
but I
never lost a lung tho.