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The awards and scholarship fund were established to honour the legacy of Barb Tarbox, the anti-smoking crusader, who passed away in after.
Barb Tarbox, a former model who became a high-profile antismoking activist after developing lung cancer, has died at Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton..
Cancer victim’s deathbed image sends message to smokers
For American smokers, her portrait is a glimpse of a future perhaps too frightening to ponder: 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.
She was Barb Tarbox, and she died on May 18, 2003, of lung cancer at the age of 42. From October 2002, two months after she was diagnosed, to the moment of her death, the Edmonton, Alberta, homemaker set about making her ordeal a lesson to others about the dangers of smoking.
In her final months, she maintained a punishing schedule of public speeches to schoolchildren and teen groups, and allowed the local newspaper to chronicle her slide toward death.
A photograph taken five days before Tarbox died was one of 36 possible warnings the Food and Drug Administration considered in the run-up to last month’s unveiling of nine graphic messages that must be on the cover of every ci
