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Smoking Stigma Hurts Fight To Cure Lung Cancer

smoking.jpg Lung Cancer kills more people than breast, colon and prostate cancers combined, yet funding for the top cancer killer just doesn’t add up.

Raising money for breast cancer is a lot easier. In fact, significantly fewer dollars are given to lung cancer research. That’s likely because smoking causes most lung cancer, and creates a stigma around the disease

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