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BC.... The " sexy " cancer
I feel the need to post after reading a letter to the editor of the Sunday telegraph today that has really upset me.
A very mixed up reader wrote " its up to funding bodies and the government to make ...
When I was a kid, no-one said the word cancer out loud, it was mouthed or hinted at. Because it was considered a "dirty disease'. I don't really know why - in Scotland in the 50s everything smoked - cars, chimneys, factories, people. Those cinema evenings with the film beaming through swirls of cigarette smoke! No-one mentioned passive smoking, possibly because it was inevitable. And yet I don't think the stigma was at all attached to smoking. Doctors smoked. I think it was just fear. Thankfully attitudes have changed. But those who have lung cancer (who may never have smoked) still cop it. In ways the overweight, over alcohol-ed, and generally utterly careless rarely do. It's not a fair world. But that's why I simply believe everyone needs access to decent health care. One report today says that 14 million Americans will cease to have this when ObamaCare goes. Not something to emulate.