The latest celebrity to join in a long list of other famous people in supporting cancer campaigns is the comedian Ricky Gervais, who has joined a lung cancer campaign to raise awareness.

He has himself been affected by the disease personally which is the biggest cancer killer in UK and ends up taking the lives of at least 35,000 people annually.

November is going to be celebrated as the Lung Cancer Awareness Month. His pictures will soon be seen on buses and the London Underground during November which will be part of the program started by The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.

He even lost his mother, Eva, to this dreaded disease in the year 2001. Ricky said, “It's devastating when you see someone you love dying from lung cancer. It's a horrible, horrible disease. By the time most people are diagnosed, it is far too late for treatment and seven out of 10 people will die within a year of diagnosis.”

The highest rate of lung cancer deaths in the UK are in Scotland.