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 ...

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 - 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 ...

The world's biggest international tobacco company has come under fire for a "hypocritical" campaign encouraging people to give up cigarettes. Philip Morris -- which produces Marlboro cigarettes among ...

Rugged rancher Robert Norris, who rose to fame as the original “Marlboro Man” cowboy despite never smoking a cigarette himself, has died at the age of 90. Norris passed away surrounded by loved ones ...

Gov. Brian Schweitzer has signed into law a compromise no-smoking ban between public health groups and Montana tavern owners in “Marlboro Country.” The prohibition on public smoking takes effect Oct.

As in any Russian city, cigarette smoke wafts just about everywhere in the industrial town of Perm on the edge of Europe near the Ural Mountains. In Soviet times residents puffed on crude unfiltered ...

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 due to chronic ...