김영태 대한폐암학회 이사장은 "세계적으로 암 사망률 1위인 폐암 환자의 대부분이 담배를 오래 피운 남성이지만 최근 전혀 흡연하지 않은 여성 폐암 환자가 크게 늘고 있다"고 했다.
Kim Young-tae, chairman of the Korean Association for Lung Cancer, said, "Most of lung cancer patients, who have the world's No. 1 cancer death rate, are men who have smoked for a long time, but the number of female lung cancer patients who have not smoked at all has significantly increased recently."