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Eric Lawson, David Millar, Wayne McLaren, and David McLean have something in common. All four of them worked for the same company, in the same position, modeling as the iconic Marlboro Man.
Wanna guess what else they have in common?
From 1978 to 1981, Eric Lawson was the face of Marlboro Cigarettes; he was the rugged, cowboy hat-wearing symbol of the biggest cigarette producer in the world. But when he died in January of 2015 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Lawson became the fourth Marlboro Man model to die of a smoking-related illness. His wife, Susan Lawson, said, “He knew the cigarettes had a hold on him. He knew, yet he still couldn’t stop.”
The first Marlboro Man to die from the “occupational hazards” of cigarette advertising was David Millar who suffered from emphysema until 1987 when he died at the age of 81. Another puffing cowboy, Wayne McLaren, gave up the habit – and his Marlboro hat – to go on an anti-smoking campaign denouncing the evils of tobacco, but his efforts couldn’t save him; he died of lung cancer in 1992. From his deathbed in Newport Beach where his body was hooked to multiple life-sustaining tubes, McLaren told representatives from the Los Angeles times, “I’ve spent the last month of my life in an incubator and I’m telling you, it’s just not worth it.” The third Marlboro actor to die, David McLean, lost his battle with lung cancer in 1995.
I hope those guys got hazard pay….
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Cigarettes
Death
Habits
Health
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(Resource cataloged by David R Smith)
