On Line Awareness Campaign
We are very excited to announce the launch of our online awareness campaign!
Throughout the month of October 2009, there are animated advertisements on the web site of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution spreading the word about lung cancer. (See a screen-shot here.)
As our #1 priority is awareness, it is our hope that these ads will spark interest and educate the uninformed about this important cause.
The Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Foundation is able to execute this campaign - and others like it - because of the generous donations from all of our supporters.
Thank you very much for your support!
Outdoor Awareness Campaign
Also, thanks to generous donations from our supporters, The Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Foundation has worked with CBS Outdoor to develop a billboard to raise awareness of lung cancer.
The billboard, located near Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia, informs passers-by that, indeed, lung cancer in non-smokers kill more Americans each year than AIDS.
(See below.)
Again, we cannot spread the word without the financial support of people like you. Thank you very much!
Emmy-Winning Actress Speaks Out
Two-time Emmy winner Kathryn Joosten is opening up about her own lung cancer battle, and also speaking about her fight to bring attention to the lung cancer cause.
| >>>> Check out her interview here. <<<< |
Joosten, who is suffering her second bout with cancer, told Entertainment Tonight, "I plan on being the Ryan White of lung cancer and I say that because lung cancer today is where AIDS was in the '80s. The public's perception was you were naughty, you did it to yourself, you're going to die anyhow, so what the hell do we care?"
"I want them to know that the public has to stop treating it as though it were some invisible stepchild that can be ignored," Joosten says in the interview. "You've got to start stepping forward. Smoking is going down, down, down. You don't see people smoking in public places anymore, hardly at all. Lung cancer is going up, up, up and we're not paying any attention."
SOURCE: EntertainmentTonight.com
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