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Lung cancer isn't just a smoker's disease

caption: Lung cancer carries the stigma of being caused by a person's own actions, but many get lung cancer without ever having smoked.
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Lung cancer carries the stigma of being caused by a person's own actions, but many get lung cancer without ever having smoked.
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Bill Radke speaks with writer Janet Freeman-Daily, a lung cancer survivor, about the fact that lung cancer is not just a smoker's disease. Freeman-Daily says the association between lung cancer and smoking makes it harder for lung cancer researchers to get funding because it's seen as something people bring upon themselves. Freeman-Daily herself has never been a smoker.

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