ChapStick has become increasingly popular among cancer patients.
Patients like to apply the lip balm to the face masks when doctors administer anesthesia and other medications. ChapStick somehow takes the edge off the bitter odors of the drugs.
Anne-Marye Hoban suggested to people on the web to donate ChapSticks as a form of philanthropy to help patients battling for Leukemia. Within a few months, she was able to collect about 3,500 ChapSticks and donated them to Children’s Hospital and Clinics in Minneapolis.
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