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Why do healthy non-smokers get lung cancer?

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This year, nearly 160,000 people in the U.S. will die from lung cancer and 10 to 15 percent of them have never smoked. If the misperception that only smokers get lung cancer wasn’t dangerous enough, people need to also understand that even young people can develop lung cancer.