Spreading the word
January 14, 2009
Debi wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Mary Lou Fisher has never smoked, but she has lung cancer.Fisher, 68, represents an unsuspecting and often misunderstood face of this deadly disease.
”Lots of people (think) I have breast cancer. That’s kind of the common thing among women,” Fisher said. “So, when I tell them it’s lung cancer, I say, ‘But I never smoked a day in my life.’ You just want to get that out there, so they can’t blame it on that.”
For far too long, she said, there has been a stigma attached to lung cancer.
”There’s a ‘You smoked so you must have deserved it’ kind of attitude. Nobody deserves cancer,” she said.
Read the rest of this great post here
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