Did the actor in the "Malborough Man" advert die of lung cancer?

Question

I know that John Wayne did and many other actors.

Answer 1

Yes he did.
Marlboro is now known as "Cowboy Killer"

Answer 2

I quit about 25 years ago. I'm sorry to say I have seen people die from lung cancer. I also know some that had to use oxygen and continued to smoke while they did. Watching someone with lung cancer wear an oxygen tube in their nose and have a cigarette in their mouth at the same time kind of makes you wonder about their intelligence.

Answer 3

The Marlboro Man is part of a tobacco advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes. The Marlboro Man was first conceived by Leo Burnett in 1954. The image involves a rugged cowboy or cowboys, in nature with only a cigarette. The ads were originally conceived as a way to popularize filtered cigarettes, which at the time were considered feminine.

The Marlboro ad campaign, created by Leo Burnett Worldwide, is said to be one of the most brilliant ad campaigns of all time. It transformed a feminine campaign, with the slogan 'Mild as May', into one that was masculine, in a matter of months. Although there were many Marlboro Men, the cowboy proved to be the most popular. This led to the 'Marlboro Cowboy' and 'Marlboro Country' campaigns.

Actor and author William Thourlby is said to have been the first Marlboro Man. The models who portrayed the Marlboro Man were New York Giants Quarterback Charley Conerly, New York Giants Defensive Back Jim Patton, Darrell Winfield, Dick Hammer, Brad Johnson, Bill Dutra, Dean Myers, Robert Norris, Wayne McLaren, David McLean and Tom Mattox. Two of them, McLaren and McLean, died of lung cancer.

In October 2006, Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Slater listed The Marlboro Man as #1 in their book 'The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived'.[1]Philip Morris & Co. (now Altria) had originally introduced the Marlboro brand as a woman's cigarette in 1924. In the years following World War II, Advertising executive Leo Burnett was looking for a new image with which to reinvent Philip Morris's Marlboro brand. Burnett's inspiration for the exceedingly masculine "Marlboro Man" icon came in 1949 from an issue of LIFE magazine, where the photograph (shot by Leonard McCombe) and story of cowboy Clarence Hailey Long caught his attention.[2]

There are also claims that the original idea for the Marlboro Man came from the Chase Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico; it is said that, for this reason, on all pictures of 'The Man' there is a heart brand (The Chase Brand) on his chaps and his horse. The origin and validity of this claim is unknown.Two men who appeared in Marlboro advertisements - Wayne McLaren and David McLean - died of lung cancer. McLaren testified in favor of anti-smoking legislation before his death at the age of 51. During the time of McLaren's anti-smoking activism, Philip Morris denied that McLaren ever appeared in a Marlboro ad, a position it later amended to maintaining that while he did appear in ads, he was not the Marlboro Man. McLean died at age 73.[3][4]

"Death In the West" a Thames Television documentary,[5] was an exposé of the cigarette industry centered around the myth of the Marlboro Man that aired on British television in 1976. Phillip Morris sued the filmmakers and in a 1979 secret settlement all copies were suppressed. In 1983, Professor Stanton A. Glantz released the film and San Francisco, California's KRON aired the documentary in 1982. Since then it has been seen around the world.

Answer 4

Several actors played the Marlboro Man over the years.

One of them - David McLean - did die of lung cancer.

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Answer 5

The widow of the "Marlboro Man" filed suit August 30, 1996 against the tobacco industry, alleging that its fraud and deceit contributed to David McLean's death from lung cancer. McLean was featured in a long-running campaign for Philip Morris' most popular brand of cigarettes. McLean's widow alleges that he routinely smoked as many as five packs of cigarettes a day in the course of shooting print and television commercials.
1. In the early 1960s, Philip Morris, Inc., came up with perhaps the most famous advertising image ever created--the Marlboro Man. The portrait of a rugged, adventurous cowboy smoking a cigarette atop a horse against a scenic mountainous backdrop is used effectively to this day, making Marlboro the best selling cigarette in the world. But while the prominent image of the Marlboro Man lives on, David McLean, the actor who originally portrayed the Marlboro Man, has died of lung cancer. Cigarettes killed the Marlboro Man.

2. By this action, Plaintiffs LILO MCLEAN, the wife of David McLean, and MARK HUTH, AKA MARK MCLEAN, the son of David McLean, seek damages for wrongful death and personal injuries to David McLean based on common law theories of fraud and deceit, negligent misrepresentation, misrepresentation to consumers, breach of express warranty, and breach of implied warranty.

JURISDICTION

3. This Court has jurisdiction over this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1332 (diversity jurisdiction) because the amount in controversy exceeds $50,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and because Plaintiffs are a citizens of a different state than the Defendants

Answer 6

It depends on which marlboro man you're talking about. A few men were marlboro men. If you mean the cowboy then yes he died of lung cancer.

Answer 7

Yes. So did Yul Brynner. He was the actor in the Magnificent Seven and the original movie, Anna and the King of Siam. He knew he was dying and did this moving ad to stop smoking. He knew smoking had killed him.

Answer 8

Yes he did. He also did a public service announcement like Yul Brenner did too.

Answer 9

Yes, and it was lately parodied in the movie, Thank You For Not Smoking.

Answer 10

yes he did,but can't remember his name though