June Pointer RIP

Here is a short and sweet tribute to June Pointer who passed away this week from cancer. She was of course one of the Pointer Sisters.

JUNE POINTER

1953-2006

While the kind of cancer was not made public I find it interesting that finally we are seeing reports on the increasing amount of lung cancer among non-smokers. Especially women.

It is an under-reported fact. On the the moral majority that is imposing its non-smoking agenda on us overlook. And I say it is a moral issue because it blames the victims of this addiction, and it blames the victims of lung cancer who may never have smoked. The non-smokers lobby wants cancer to be caused by one thing and one thing only, smoking. But of course it is easy to blame smokers, the whole anti-smoking movement has been based upon this mythology that it is ONLY smoking that causes cancer When in fact cancer is the result of industrial capitalism, and its resulting toxic environment; chemicals, pollution, etc.

Even though it is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, lung cancer attracts much less research money than other major cancers, Dr. Siegfried said, largely because it is so strongly linked to smoking that people often blame the victims for giving the disease to themselves. The Thinkers: Celebrity deaths shine light on lung cancer

Lung cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer death
for both men and women in Canada according to annual
statistics released this week by the Canadian Cancer Society.
Despite alarming trends, including an increasing
incidence of lung cancer in women and life-long non-smokers, 
Lung cancer tops list as biggest cancer killer

"A significant body of scientific evidence links exposure to radiation and synthetic chemicals to an increased risk of breast cancer," said Susan Roll, Associate Executive Director of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and one of the event's primary organizers. "We hope that legislators and their constituents will begin to think about reducing toxic chemicals as one way of preventing some diseases and disorders."Exploring chemical links to disease

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