Retired FDNY Lt. John “Johnny Lungs” McLaughlin, who collects a tax-free, $86,000 disability pension despite being an accomplished triathlete and marathon runner, has also muscled into line for a cut of the city’s proposed $712 million 9/11-victim settlement.

The Post’s Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding reported yesterday that McLaughlin could get as much as $62,000 from a suit he filed.

To do what — buy new running shoes?

McLaughlin, a Long Beach councilman, was already the poster boy for the “disability” pension scam that’s been bleeding New York taxpayers dry.

Thanks to union-written Albany legislation that requires medical examiners to assume that any one of a host of ailments is job-related, 80 percent of firefighters and chiefs who retired last year did so on extra-generous disability pensions.

Which is apparently how the 9/11 settlement is going to work, too.

McLaughlin says he developed respiratory problems as a result of the 70 hours he put in at Ground Zero.

But he qualified for his disability pension before 9/11 — and then went on to run marathons.

Who knew that Ground Zero dust could be so good for your health?