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... Eagle-Tribune Online Eagle-Tribune Gloucester Daily Times Newburyport Daily News Salem News Weekly papers Monday, March 27, 2006 Plus Edition Sign In | Info Home News - NH - Haverhill Sports Opinion Business Lifestyle Obituaries Special Reports Classifieds Homes North Help Wanted Legal Notices Lottery-MA Lottery-NH Maps Movies Phonebook Stocks TV Weather Lifestyle Not for smokers only: Local woman works to eradicate lung cancer stereotypes; pushes for action By Julie Kirkwood Staff Writer Let's get it out of the way right now: Diane Legg does not smoke.

She smoked socially in college but does not have the "pack history" that would have put her at risk for lung cancer.Let's get it out of the way, because that's what everybody wants to know when they find out a person has lung cancer.

And maybe it shouldn't be, said the 43-year-old mother from Amesbury.The stigma attached to lung cancer is one of the reasons survival rates for nonsmokers like Legg, and like Dana Reeve, wife of the late actor Christopher Reeve, are so dismal.

Dana Reeve died this month at age 44 of lung cancer, only seven months after her diagnosis.Legg was...

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