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Article: Lung cancer is main cause of cancer death.(news)
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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The following article is the second in a series of columns by the Canadian Cancer Society that will be running in Windspeaker, providing information on healthy living from an Aboriginal perspective.
Lung cancer is the main cause of cancer death for both men and women in Ontario and the risk of getting lung cancer is higher when you smoke commercial tobacco.
"Commercial tobacco use is much higher within the Aboriginal population," says Nancy Korstanje, Manager of Community Integration and Promotion at Smokers' Helpline "Aboriginal people have used tobacco for thousands of years for rituals, ceremonies and medicinal purposes," says Korstanje. "It is ...