"It's matter with a great deal of urgency," county Health Officer Frances B. Phillips told members of the County Council, who were functioning as the Board of Health for the meeting. "It's a problem whose time has come in Anne Arundel County."
Ms. Phillips noted that cancer is the leading cause of death in the county. And lung cancer is the No. 1 killer among cancers.
In 2004, 900 people died of cancer in the county, compared to 796 people who died from heart disease, the second-leading cause of death.
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