RIP Marlboro Man

Darrell Winfield,the cowboy who was the Marlboro Man in all the ads has passed away.
The story

Eh?

I thought he died of lung cancer in the 1980's?

The origional one died long ago. From the article: one of the most recognizable Marlboro Men

That's the 6th one to die over the years.

Allan

So much for smoking and old age. I started at age 14 and in 1988 I bought a Ford pickup and swore I wan't going to stink it up with tobacco smoke. So I quit. Cold turkey. Good riddance.

Mark

I quit during the summer of 2nd grade...I was sitting on my tricycle and tried to inhale and it knocked me off my trike. Never touched another one and am the world's biggest hater of the filthy stinking habit.

That's the only way to quit.

I was smoking about a pack and a half a day when I met my wife. On our second date, she admitted she's allergic to tobacco smoke. I took a pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket, threw it in a nearby trash can, and haven't touched one since. That was in February, 1964.

The losers who say they want to quit and can't just haven't had the right motivation.

When my dad went in the hospital once in his late 80's, the nurse came in and asked a bunch of questions.
First one was "do you drink". Daddy said no.
Second one was "do you smoke". Daddy said no. Third one was " have you ever smoked". Daddy said yes. Nurse asked "how much". Daddy said less than a pack. Nurse asked "less than a pack a day". Daddy said no less than a pack in my life.
Richard in NW SC

Yup - I quit four years ago. It was getting too expensive! I got the wife to quit about two years ago but she uses one of those electronic cigarettes. I think that it is even worse - who knows what that liquid in there does to you. Also, she smokes more now than before. We never smoked in the house so we had to get up and go outside. Now she sits on her butt in the chair and blows on that crack pipe. BTW, the first ingredient in the liquid is RV antifreeze. Mmmmmmm.

I am right there with him on smoking, less than a pack in my 55 years, most in teens and early 20s.

(quoted from post at 18:37:33 01/16/15) That's the only way to quit.

I was smoking about a pack and a half a day when I met my wife. On our second date, she admitted she's allergic to tobacco smoke. I took a pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket, threw it in a nearby trash can, and haven't touched one since. That was in February, 1964.

[b:a384e815bb]The losers who say they want to quit and can't just haven't had the right motivation[/b:a384e815bb].

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ou can't call smokers losers.
Everybody has a bad habit,...what is yours?

Started smoking when I was 9 yrs old. When I quit in 1983, I was smoking 3-1/2 packs a day. They had just raised the cost per pack from 35 to 50 cents per pack. That was too much for me! Quit cold turkey, haven't touched one since.

Tobaco used to smell good & sweet. Today you cannot smell the real tobacco with all the chemicals added to it. It just plain STINKS!

Gunny, in Iowa

My brother who said trying to quit smoking was harder to give up than cocaine quit smoking cold turkey when his wife showed him how much that filthy habit cost him a year.
I had a cousin die of lung cancer at fifty and his son died at 37 from lung cancer.
That nicotine affects people differently. Look at George Burns.

Haven't had a cigarette in 25 months and 6 days. They put me in the hospital overnight because I couldn't breathe and with you guy's prayers I have been able to do without them. Keith

Know someone who smokes like a chimney - at least 2 packs a day. They stink, the car stinks, their clothes stink, etc, etc, and when they walk into a room you about gag. Between that, being over weight (100# plus), and being lazy, they wonder why they have "health issues".....

Commercial cigarettes smell like a burnt automobile interior. Fire retardant, plenty of carcinogen content, and lets not forget that somehow Polonium 210 is in there, a form of radiation which accumulates in the smokers lungs. I could go on a hate rant about any and all of this. I don't know what it is about mass production/commercial tobacco, but I would imagine that if you grew the plant yourself, harvest, dry/cure and process into pipe or cigarette tobacco, it won't smell like the floor sweepings they roll up and put on the market. I don't know what it is, but people just get hooked and it is absolutely the worst bad habit you can have.

It will be interesting how it pans out for my mother, an incessant smoker who sits in a brown tar stained room and smokes every half hour of the day. She looks the part, as this habit ages you unbelievably. There is absolutely nothing good about smoking cigarettes, though you can roll your own with better tobacco, that does not reek of burnt garbage, I can't see the benefits of any of it.

I remember these advertising campaigns, the ad executives, the tobacco companies, exploited the people to make their fortunes, with an extremely harmful and addicting substance, think any of them smoke this garbage ????? My grandfather was a commercial artist whom worked for the NYS dept of Commerce, as well as doing side work, one job he did was producing anti smoking stickers for the cancer society right when they determined it was a health hazard in the early 60's. It was copyrighted work, and I can't find a one of those old stickers at this point. He was a heavy smoker himself !!! he ended up with high BP, cardio issues, went off his BP meds and suffered a stroke, left him half paralyzed and between the VA hospital. all the other places, 4 or 5 years of suffering through how it left him, he finally passed. I only knew him a short while, then got to watch his demise on a weekly basis, there is no doubt it was from this bad habit. I can remember all the veteran patients in that VA hospital as a youngster, a very somber learning experience.

Fun to watch your mother slowly decay from the effects of their products.
Polonium 210

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(quoted from post at 18:37:33 01/16/15) That's the only way to quit.

I was smoking about a pack and a half a day when I met my wife. On our second date, she admitted she's allergic to tobacco smoke. I took a pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket, threw it in a nearby trash can, and haven't touched one since. That was in February, 1964.

[b:2ca5919742]The losers who say they want to quit and can't just haven't had the right motivation[/b:2ca5919742].

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ou can't call smokers losers.

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Of course he can and he just did. Are you having trouble reading it? Its clear on my computer screen...

I think I see/smell that guy every time I shop @ Walmart.

(quoted from post at 04:08:00 01/17/15)

(quoted from post at 18:37:33 01/16/15) That's the only way to quit.

I was smoking about a pack and a half a day when I met my wife. On our second date, she admitted she's allergic to tobacco smoke. I took a pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket, threw it in a nearby trash can, and haven't touched one since. That was in February, 1964.

[b:0e87fec0dc]The losers who say they want to quit and can't just haven't had the right motivation[/b:0e87fec0dc].

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ou can't call smokers losers.
Everybody has a bad habit,...what is yours?

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I quit smoking about ten years ago, cold turkey. Used to use about anything made of tobacco. When I quit smoking I quit everything. But, after about seven years I started using Copenhagen again. Mark Twain wrote something to this effect. "You shouldn't give up all your bad habits, because when the time comes you have to have something left to throw overboard."

Do not remember exactly, but wasn't the original Marlboro man in his late 80s?

(quoted from post at 06:37:19 01/17/15) [b:6dfc79a5fc]Know someone who smokes like a chimney - at least 2 packs a day. They stink, the car stinks, their clothes stink, etc, etc, and when they walk into a room you about gag.[/b:6dfc79a5fc] Between that, being over weight (100# plus), and being lazy, they wonder why they have "health issues".....

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know a woman that sweats like a horse at all times and tries to hide the stink with perfume,..she does not smoke.
What do you suggest,..shoot them!

He who is without sin..let him cast the first stone.
We can't all be saints

(quoted from post at 10:49:21 01/17/15)

(quoted from post at 22:08:00 01/16/15)

(quoted from post at 18:37:33 01/16/15) That's the only way to quit.

I was smoking about a pack and a half a day when I met my wife. On our second date, she admitted she's allergic to tobacco smoke. I took a pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket, threw it in a nearby trash can, and haven't touched one since. That was in February, 1964.

[b:19afc17b7e]The losers who say they want to quit and can't just haven't had the right motivation[/b:19afc17b7e].

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ou can't call smokers losers.

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Of course he can and he just did. Are you having trouble reading it? Its clear on my computer screen...

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nother saint :roll:

Hate to break it to you fellers but we're all gonna die. Only way I've seen you can add to your day's is by honoring your mom and dad.

What I think is stupid is to be politically correct a body needs to quit smoking cigarettes. Then you need to start drinking alcohol and using pot. Brilliant! My how times have changed.

No need to shot them, the smokes will eventually
kill them off. As for the other lady....might be
something she can't help - but smokers CAN
change....

One of the most successful ad campaigns ever.
Much like Coca-Cola's teach the world to sing campaign.
Anyone remember an actor from those ads? Are they still alive?
RIP. Glad to see a hard working cowboy made it to 85.