Dire warnings redux

"We're dealing with an epidemic, and epidemics require dramatic, aggressive, earth-shaking responses from governments," says [Garfield Mahood]. "And this is not what we're seeing with the latest round of warnings." - Pauline Comeau, Ottawa The new images were tested last year on 4 groups of smokers (2 in Halifax, 2 in Montréal) 18 years and older and included photo-shopped images of a pregnant woman and a fetus, both smoking, and a man dying of lung cancer as his wife and daughter sit next to him. A Health Canada spokesperson said the goal was to test basic concepts and reactions. A final decision on new images has not been reached, and new pictures are not expected before late 2007 or 2008.