Eric Lawson, a working actor who portrayed the Marlboro Man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72.
Lawson’s wife, Susan Lawson, said Sunday that her husband died Jan. 10 at his California home. The cause was respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
Thanks to listener Bob Gorman.
Heard today from a Coloradan that Marlboro has Marijuana cigarettes in development, and plans to sell them just like tobacco cigs in Wash and Colo.
I suppose the MJ Marlboro man will be a Rastafari mon?