Just before the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1970, Virginia Slims aired a new commercial during The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. It was a celebration of the progress women have made over ...

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 ...

Carolyn Holbrook receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This research was supported by Australian Research Council Linkage grant LP210100204, 'Cancer Culture: Understanding Anti-Cancer ...

Bans on TV advertising for specific products don't slow down technology. TV ads for tobacco-laden cigarettes, so bad for our health, were stopped in 1970. But now they are back -- in theory. Ads for e ...

I must disagree with Steve Napoli’s Oct. 17 letter “Ban of T.V. Tobacco Ads Hurt the Smoking Business.” In the decade following the TV and radio cigarette-ad ban, U.S. cigarette consumption increased ...

Eric Lawson, a working actor who portrayed the Marlboro Man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72. Lawson's wife, Susan Lawson, said Sunday that her husband died Jan. 10 at his ...