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With the current heatwave, it's easy to see why. — Here's What to Know About the Condition --Kathy Griffin Got Lung Cancer Despite Never Smoking Kathy Griffin shared difficult news last week: despite never being a smoker, she was diagnosed with stage 1 lung cancer, and would undergo surgery to remove part of her left lung. While the majority of lung cancer diagnoses occur in people who smoke, a small but growing portion of patients are non-smokers. Dr. Fauci Just Warned of "Major Surge" We are in the midst of a "major surge" of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the President and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned this morning. Appearing on Morning Joe, the doctor gave a full-throated warning to all Americans about the dangers of the Delta variant—and the possibility of new mutants arising, ones that might get around our vaccines. Read on for 7 key points that may save your life, and the lives of your children. "It's a lot more common than people realize," Dr. Nathan Pennell, a lung cancer specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, tells PEOPLE. Of the 200,000 Americans a year who are diagnosed with lung cancer, around 10% of the men and 15% of the women have never smoked, though those percentages are likely higher, as the data is a few years behind, he explains. Pennell says researchers are unsure if the rise in lung cancer cases among non-smokers is because "it's truly more common and more people are getting it, or whether it's just a higher percentage of people with lung cancer are non-smokers because fewer people are smoking. Less than 15% of adults in the U.S. are smoking now, which is fantastic, so a higher percentage of the cases of lung cancer in the last five or six years are in non-smokers." But generally, "the only thing you need in order to get lung cancer is lungs," he says. Here's what to know about lung cancer in non-smokers. How do non-smokers get lung cancer? It's not fully known how non-smokers develop lung cancer, Pennell says, but "there are a number of risk factors other than tobacco for lung cancer." "There's definitely some component of family history," he says. "Radon, which is a colorless odorless gas that is in most people's basements in the United States, is probably the second biggest risk factor for lung cancer behind tobacco. That's something that everyone tests for now when they sell a house, but for older people, it wasn't routinely tested for when they were growing up and they could have been exposed to that. And industrial pollution and other things like heavy metals certainly can play a role as well." 'Embarrassingly vain': Fans troll Kylie Jenner over her 3.5 hour makeup routine Khloé Kardashian uses this giant water bottle to stay hydrated — and it's on sale! These fall-ready handbags are on sale now at Coach, and they start at just $88 Hailey Bieber's 'Sunday funday' featured a pair of her go-to $120 sneakers