Marlboro's Man is the personality that has been created by Marlboro in commercial cigarette advertising. This personality was unbelievably popular in the United States between 1954 and 1999.
The Marlboro man's promotion, created by Leo Brent, is one of the most successful ads of all time. But the interesting thing about the propaganda was that most of those who appeared in the cowboy character to promote Marlboro died from pulmonary diseases.
Man of number one Marlboro
American actor Eric Lovesan, who promoted Marlboro cigarettes in the 1970s and 1980s, died at the age of 72 with rare pulmonary disease.
Lewens began smoking from age of 14. He was worked in marlboro from 1978 to 1981 and advertised cigars. He played several films during this period. Eric Lawson was the number one Marlboro cigarette ad.
In 1954, he began to advertise Marlboro filtered cigarettes for men. Lewens died on January 10, 2014 at his home. He also participated in anti-cigars propaganda even before his death, and spoke in one of the television shows about the bad effects of the cigar. Lewassan continued to smoking and unable to quit smoking.
Wayne McLaren was an actor before collaborating with Marlborough. In 1976, he attended the first cigarette advertisement and was known as the man of Marlboro.
McLaren was born in September 1940, suffered from lung cancer in 1990.When he became aware of the disease, he said that the disease was due to the Marlboro cigarette advertising for 30 years.
"Daivid Millar" was one of the main characters of the cowboy who promoted Marlboro in the 1950s. He died of lung disease in 1987 at age 81. According to friends's of millar, he was a smoker, but he had left smoking 20 years ago.
Interestingly, Millar had never been interested in horses, but he had to put up with this animal for propaganda. In the Marlboro Advertising Company, Millar rode or drove horses with the help of a rope. Millar, though not interested to horses,but was one of the famous Marlboro models.
David McLean appeared in Marlborough TV commercials from the early 1960s and his photo was printed on promotional posters. On October 12, 1995, at the age of 73, he died of lung cancer. McLean smoked at age 12 and became ill from 1985 in the sixties. Doctors take out a cancerous tumor from his right lung to save him perhaps from death, but with surgery, McLean did not recover, and the disease spread to his brain and spine.
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