LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eric Lawson, one of several actors who depicted the "Marlboro Man" cowboy in a long-running series of cigarette ads for Philip Morris and later appeared in an anti-tobacco ...

Actor Eric Lawson, once the face of Marlboro cigarettes, has died from respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), at the age of 72. From 1978 to 1981, Lawson appeared in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72. Lawson died Jan. 10 at his home in San Luis Obispo of respiratory ...

HELENA — For many, the images of rugged cowboys smoking cigarettes in the saddle while riding a fence line came to symbolize ‘‘Marlboro Country.'' But in Montana, backdrop for some of those cigarette ...