{"id":1877,"date":"2014-01-27T19:59:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2014-01-27T19:59:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:59:20","slug":"yet-another-marlboro-man-dies-from-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1877","title":{"rendered":"Yet another Marlboro Man dies from smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1878\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=1878\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600.jpg?fit=600%2C447&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,447\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600.jpg?fit=474%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1878\" alt=\"140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600.jpg?resize=300%2C223&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incredible, yet another &#8220;Marlboro Man&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2014\/01\/27\/22459778-actor-who-played-marlboro-man-in-ads-dies-from-smoking-related-disease?lite\">dies from smoking.<\/a> By my count, that makes four.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Lawson, who portrayed the iconic Marlboro Man cowboy in Marlboro ads from 1978 to 1981, died this week of COPD at the relatively young age of 72. He appeared in anti-smoking ads after he worked for Philip Morris.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson joins Marlboro Men models <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlboro_man#Controversy\">Wayne McLaren, Dick Hammer and David McLean<\/a>, all of whom died of lung cancer. McLaren testified in favour of anti-smoking laws many years ago and Philip Morris tried to claim he was never a Marlboro Man model, but McLaren still had pay stubs calling him the Marlboro Man (what, a tobacco company LYING&#8230;?)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible, yet another &#8220;Marlboro Man&#8221; dies from smoking. By my count, that makes four. Eric Lawson, who portrayed the iconic Marlboro Man cowboy in Marlboro ads from 1978 to 1981, died this week of COPD at the relatively young age of 72. He appeared in anti-smoking ads after he worked for Philip Morris. Lawson joins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet another Marlboro Man dies from smoking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,19,221,222,49,50],"tags":[590,629,630],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-altria","category-copd","category-marlboro","category-marlboro-man","category-philip-morris","category-phillip-morris","tag-copd","tag-marlboro","tag-marlboro-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/140127-malboro-eric-lawson-1130a.photoblog600.jpg?fit=600%2C447&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-uh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4298,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4298","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":0},"title":"One of the original Marlboro Man dies at 90","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"November 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting story about one of the very first \"Marlboro Man,\" who actually never smoked a single cigarette. 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Man of Steel was one of the more blatant I've ever seen -- Superman has a battle\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anti-tobacco campaign&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anti-tobacco campaign","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/man-of-steel-superman-7-11-seven-eleven-henry-cavill1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/man-of-steel-superman-7-11-seven-eleven-henry-cavill1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/man-of-steel-superman-7-11-seven-eleven-henry-cavill1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2878,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2878","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":2},"title":"Another Engle Case judgement &#8212; $17.3 million against Philip Morris","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"January 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This is yet another in a long line (literally thousands) of Engle Case lawsuits in Florida. 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