 What is lung-rot?
Spacemen Die at Home By EDWARD W. LUDWIG Illustrated by THORNE One man's retreat is another's prison ... and it takes a heap of flying to make a hulk a home! For it was June in this year of 1995, and we were the graduating class of the U. S. Academy of Interplanetary Flight. And the left side of his face was streaked with dark scar tissue, the result of an atomic blowup on one of the old Moon ships. That's what most of you want, isn't it? Whoopin' cough, the medic says, not knowin' the air had chemicals that turned to acid in your lungs. Hell, I says, that ain't whoopin' cough, that's lung-rot."
 Lung-rot is a disease caused by chemicals in the Martian atmosphere.
 Lung-rot is a disease caused by chemicals in the Martian atmosphere.  Lung-rot is tuberculosis.  A disease that presents like whooping cough.  Lung-rot is Martian slang for pneumonia.