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| March 07, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2007 St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Deborah L. Shelton

ST. LOUIS _ About one in five women who get lung cancer have never smoked.

Researchers know that smoking causes cancer, but they don't know why people who never smoke get it.

And they have no idea why more women who have never touched a cigarette get lung cancer than men who have never lit up.

Lung cancer killed Dana Reeve on Monday. She was 44 and had never smoked. People know her as the constant caregiver and support for her husband, actor Christopher Reeve, whose tragic fall from a horse in 1995 paralyzed him. He died in 2004.

Now, her own early death is bringing attention to another tragedy: lung cancer among people who have never smoked, especially its disproportionate impact on…

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