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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When it came to portraying the rugged western outdoorsman who helped transform a pack of filtered cigarettes into the world’s most popular brand, Marlboro Man Eric Lawson was the ...

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 ...

Around 20% of women with lung cancer have never smoked. Mallika Wiriyathitipirn/EyeEm via Getty Images When many people think of an average lung cancer patient, they often imagine an older man smoking ...

It was his brother who got him started, back in the 1930s. They lived in the Helena area. Bought papers, got ahold of tobacco, and rolled their own cigarettes. W.Z. "Herf" Ingersoll was 10 years old ...

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 ...

Bob Norris, a rancher whose rugged persona graced billboards and television commercials as an original Marlboro Man, died Nov. 3 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 90. Norris' death was announced ...

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 ...

From congressional hearings to multiple class action lawsuits to outraged newspaper editorial pages, there is a growing consensus that social media is harmful to Americans. The problem is both the ...

This week (Aug. 22) in 1949, Life magazine put on its cover Clarence Hailey Long, a working cowboy on a large Texas cattle ranch, and five years later, Leo Burnett, the founder of a Chicago-based ...