George Edwards Jewelers promoting lung cancer awareness

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and George Edwards Jewelers, located at 2131 Sawyer Dr., Wheatfield, NY is “GOING WHITE” for the month of November.

“We want to honor our friends and customers who have suffered from this devastating disease,” said George Edwards, the long time jeweler and proprietor of George Edwards Jewelers.

Lung Cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the USA, according to Roswell Park Institute. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking causes 80 to 90 percent of cases of lung cancer, a fact that must help the manufacturers of cigarettes to sleep quite well at night.

Each year, about 200,000 people in the United States are told they have lung cancer and more than 150,000 people die from this disease. Lung cancer takes more lives than breast, colon, pancreatic and prostate cancer combined.

All this month George Edwards Jewelers will be working to raise awareness, and, as part of their plan, will be selling raffle tickets for a “White Basket”, valued at $173, including a $50 Gift Certificate and a Sterling Silver Pearl Tin Cup Necklace and Earrings. The proceeds will go to Team Cure, a benefit for Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

In addition, they will be offering a 15% discount on all pearl and diamond jewelry (excluding Estate jewelry); donating 5% of these sales, $5 for every “Just What I Wanted” CHAMILIA Limited Edition Christmas bead sold, and the entire proceeds from sales of their small, "white" polishing cloths ($3 each) to the same cause at Roswell.

“Start your Christmas shopping now and help ‘find a cure’!,” Mr. Edwards advises.

Meantime, if you are enjoying a fine and pleasant smoke, and subsidizes the good people who keep the Roswell researchers busy, the makers of cigarettes, you might consider quitting – not only for your own health, but for the less selfish reason that your cigarette money helps enable these gentlemen to keep making their product and hooking more young people to the cancer prone habit.

Or, if you are a convenience store owner that sells the poisonous product, you might consider throwing them away in November, for sure as you are selling them today, there will be customers of yours tomorrow who will get lung cancer from the product you sold them.