For the longest time, the Marlboro Man was synonymous with America’s image of itself — tough, self-sufficient, hardworking. In one of the 20th century’s most famous ad campaigns, which began in the ...

I heard that the actor who was the Marlboro Man in TV commercials died of lung cancer from smoking. Is that true? Origins: When a prominent study was released in the 1950s linking smoking to lung ...

LOS ANGELES - 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 message for ...

Clearwater police and Pinellas County sheriff's officials are looking for a robber, above, with a taste for Marlboro Red 100s. Four times, the "cigarette robber," as authorities call him, demanded ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 failure ...

For the longest time, the Marlboro Man was synonymous with America’s image of itself — tough, self-sufficient, hard-working. In one of the 20th century’s most famous ad campaigns, which began in the ...

This undated photo, courtesy of Susan Lawson, shows former Marlboro man Eric Lawson. Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72. Lawson ...

The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld a nearly $37 million judgment for a woman who said she developed cancer after switching to Marlboro Light cigarettes because she thought they were less ...

For the longest time, the Marlboro Man was synonymous with America’s image of itself — tough, self-sufficient, hard-working. In one of the 20th century’s most famous ad campaigns, which began in the ...