Women in their thirties.
Chris Reeves' wife was one casualty of this aggressive form of lung cancer. Women who had never smoked, or who had only been exposed to second hand smoke decades earlier, are getting an aggressive form of lung cancer and they are dying from it.
Cancer rates for Japanese women in 1900 were one in 65. Now women get breast cancer (depending on who you talk to) at the rate of one in six, or even one in four.
Researchers who have looked at the Japanese cancer stats realized that one factor is that women in Japan at the turn of the Twentieth Century ate a diet high in seaweed and sea veggies, fish, and vegetables. When researchers followed the lives of Japanese women who moved to the USA, within twenty years their cancer stats for breast cancer were only slightly lower than American women.
And I am glad you are not someone who experiences the living hell that is Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS).
But the fact you are free of the problem doesn't guarantee a lifetime immunity. A friend who scoffed at the disease ended up working at a hospital the day that roofers tarred the roof. He couldn't handle the fumes and asked to go home. He wasn't allowed to. Now he too understands the implications of the disease of Chemical Sensitivities. He needs to stay home during windy weather if people use pesticides near his farm. He uses only baking soda and water and vinegar for most cleaning chores. If it weren't for Disability Payments, he'd be dead.
Most people are just one exposure away from being a member of the MCS group.
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