Teen Hopes Picture of Dying Mom on Cigarettes Will Help People Stop Smoking

Submitted by CancerTreatment.net Staff Mon 01/03/2011

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A teen hopes that a picture of her dying mom will help others to stop smoking:

"Seventeen-year-old Mackenzie Tarbox hopes a picture of her emaciated mother dying of lung cancer stops people from smoking when it appears on cigarette packages.

“The photograph itself is the hardest one for me to look at,” Mackenzie said Thursday, after Health Canada announced the death-bed image of Barb Tarbox will be one of 16 new and larger warning labels on cigarette packs.

“It will be a constant reminder of the danger of smoking. It’s a lot more personal — there’s a name and a face to it.”"

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