[Ditter]

I can't imagine what backwater you live in that lets people get sick & die without even knowing that they have lung cancer. I never said that smoking was the only thing that causes lung disease. My daughter-in-law's mother died of lung cancer & was a non smoker. The cancer spread from another area but she was listed as dying from lung cancer because that is what killed her.

[Bogey]

I don't live in the backwater. That's the problem. If you look at the research dollars going to lung cancer, it's dismal. Why? Because people conviently only link it to smoking. People that don't smoke get screwed in the process.
And vastly overlooked in diagnosis. Disturbing also is the fact that the actual x-rays to find lung cancer are dangerous. Which means early detection is almost unheard of.
This is horrific as well for individuals who are in remission from other cancers. Very, very common for the reacurrence to go into the lungs. There are tons of people that have lost family members to cancer in the lungs. While they thought they were cancer free, it showed back up in the lungs or the brain. Not unusual at all.
You need to get your head out of a hole.
Your insistence that lung cancer is only smoking related is horse...it. Tell that to the thousands of people that have lost loved ones to this disease because that's where the original cancer spread to.
My friend died at 44. Her previous ovarian cancer went straight to her lungs. One day she had trouble breathing.
Died a month later. Her case is hardly isolated.