# (Cough) R.I.P. (hack), Marlborough Man! (wheeze) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-r-i-p-hack-marlborough-man-wheeze/679844 "2014-01-27T14:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-r-i-p-hack-marlborough-man-wheeze/679844/1 "2014-01-27T14:53:50Z")
Died of lung disease, of course. [http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/27/the-cigarettes-had-a-hold-on-him-former-marlboro-man-eric-lawson-dead-from-lung-disease](http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/27/the-cigarettes-had-a-hold-on-him-former-marlboro-man-eric-lawson-dead-from-lung-disease) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-r-i-p-hack-marlborough-man-wheeze/679844/2 "2014-01-27T14:55:57Z")
from the link: > [@](#): > > “He knew the cigarettes had a hold on him,” she said. “He knew, yet he still couldn’t stop.” > > A few actors and models who pitched Marlboro brand cigarettes have died of smoking-related diseases. They include David Millar, who died of emphysema in 1987, and David McLean, who died of lung cancer in 1995. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-r-i-p-hack-marlborough-man-wheeze/679844/3 "2014-01-27T16:03:10Z")
Did they leave good looking corpses? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-r-i-p-hack-marlborough-man-wheeze/679844/4 "2014-01-27T16:21:03Z")
Lawson was also survived by six children, 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. It wasn’t the smokes that killed him --------- it was lack of sleep! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-r-i-p-hack-marlborough-man-wheeze/679844/5 "2014-01-27T16:59:26Z")
Evil bastard tobacco hawkers. Killed him and [millions of others](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/993/did-cigarettes-distributed-to-wwii-gis-kill-more-men-than-died-in-battle). ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-r-i-p-hack-marlborough-man-wheeze/679844/6 "2014-01-27T18:13:21Z")
Marlborough was originally a woman’s cigarette brand (most men’s brands like Lucky Strike and Camels didn’t have filters). Then when the connection to lung cancer could no longer be ignored, Phillip Morris pitched the brand to men, but had to butch up its image to distance it from its origins. My point being: he was as much a victim of his culture’s fragile male egotism as its nicotine addiction ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-r-i-p-hack-marlborough-man-wheeze/679844/7 "2014-01-27T20:38:13Z")
_Thank you for Smoking_ covers this issue well; the tobacco company in that case pays off their dying spokesman because he needs money for his medical care, even though he wants to go public with all the information he has about the harm tobacco causes, and how the marketing campaign was organized.