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Email address: Leave this field empty if you re human: Six years ago today, January 17, 2015, Bayard Winslow “Chip” Kennett II, a Conway, NH, native and a former Capitol Hill staffer for U.S. Senator John E. Sununu (New Hampshire) died of lung cancer. He was a non-smoker. He was 34 years old, married, with two small children. In May of 2014 he gave moving first hand testimony to the US Senate special committee on aging with ranking member Susan M. Collins (Maine) for whom he had also worked. I did not know Chip Kennett, but his death affected me because just a year earlier I had met cancer research evangelist Dave Bjork. He, too, was diagnosed with lung cancer in his early 30s. He, too, has never smoked and as a survivor has become a real advocate for putting money directly in the hands of researchers and for raising awareness of the work that needs to be done. The stigma around lung cancer as a smoker’s disease has hampered progress and yet, more than 20 percent of all lu

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