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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Norris, the first Marlboro Man to appear on television, died at age 90. Norris served as the popular icon for Marlboro cigarettes for more than decade, though he was never a smoker. He quit the ...

Philanthropist and rancher Bob Norris, best known as the original "Marlboro Man," died earlier this week. He was 90. Famous for a face that graced thousands of billboards and magazine ads, always with ...

RICHMOND, VA - One tobacco giant hopes to stop making cigarettes entirely. Philip Morris International is the company behind Marlboro and other large brands. The company says they want to phase out ...

MARLBORO (CBS) – Investigators say that smoking was the cause of a fatal fire that burned through part of a Marlboro duplex Thursday morning. Deputy State Fire Marshal Maribel Fournier, Marlboro Fire ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

Eric Lawson also had bit parts on TV shows including "Baretta," "Charlie's Angels," "Dynasty" and "Baywatch." By The Associated Press Joe Ely, Singer-Songwriter Whose Legacy Touched Rock and Punk, ...