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A few weeks ago, during the height of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it was hard to go anywhere without seeing a sea of pink. Pink Campbell's Soup cans at the grocery store. Pink mixers, potholders and spatulas at cookware shops. Pink ribbons on, well, just about everything. That was October. Now it's November, and it's Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Lung cancer doesn't get the attention of breast cancer, but it's an even bigger killer of women. "People are shocked, if it comes up in conversation," says Tawni Spargur, a 47-year-old Spokane Valley resident.