Lung cancer victim's deathbed image sends potent message
Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
The photo of Barb Tarbox didn't make the cut for the FDA's new cigarette warning labels, but she wanted people to see the truth.For American smokers, her portrait is a glimpse of a future frightening to ponder, and for U.S. health officials, perhaps too powerful to foist on the public: an unsparing photograph of a person scarcely recognizable as a woman, her body wasted by cancer, her hair gone, her blue eyes fixed in a thousand-mile stare.