Marlboro man dies of chronic lung disease
Eric Lawson, who depicted the rough Marlboro man in cigarette ads throughout the late 1970s, has passed on. He was 72.
Lawson passed on 10 January at his home in San Luis Obispo of respiratory disappointment because of constant obstructive pneumonic ailment, his wife, Susan Lawson, said on Sunday.
Lawson was a performer with spot parts on such TV indicates as Baretta and The Streets of San Francisco when he was contracted to show up in print Marlboro ads from 1978 to 1981. His different credits incorporate Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Baywatch. His wife said wounds supported on the set of a western film finished his vocation in 1997.
A smoker since age 14, Lawson later showed up in an against smoking business that satirize the Marlboro man and an Entertainment Tonight portion to examine the negative impacts of smoking. Ms Lawson said her spouse was pleased with the meeting, in spite of the fact that he was smoking around then and proceeded the propensity until he was diagnosed with COPD.
"He knew the cigarettes had a hang on him," she said. "He knew, yet he still couldn't stop."
A couple of on-screen characters and models who showed up in adverts for Marlboro smokes have kicked the bucket of smoking-related infections. They incorporate David Millar, who kicked the bucket of emphysema in 1987, and David Mclean, who passed on of lung malignancy in 1995.
Lawson is additionally made due by six kids, 18 grandchildren and 11 extraordinary grandchildren.
Lawson passed on 10 January at his home in San Luis Obispo of respiratory disappointment because of constant obstructive pneumonic ailment, his wife, Susan Lawson, said on Sunday.
Lawson was a performer with spot parts on such TV indicates as Baretta and The Streets of San Francisco when he was contracted to show up in print Marlboro ads from 1978 to 1981. His different credits incorporate Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Baywatch. His wife said wounds supported on the set of a western film finished his vocation in 1997.
A smoker since age 14, Lawson later showed up in an against smoking business that satirize the Marlboro man and an Entertainment Tonight portion to examine the negative impacts of smoking. Ms Lawson said her spouse was pleased with the meeting, in spite of the fact that he was smoking around then and proceeded the propensity until he was diagnosed with COPD.
"He knew the cigarettes had a hang on him," she said. "He knew, yet he still couldn't stop."
A couple of on-screen characters and models who showed up in adverts for Marlboro smokes have kicked the bucket of smoking-related infections. They incorporate David Millar, who kicked the bucket of emphysema in 1987, and David Mclean, who passed on of lung malignancy in 1995.
Lawson is additionally made due by six kids, 18 grandchildren and 11 extraordinary grandchildren.
