Quit Smoking! Two 'Marlboro Man' Died of Lung Cancer

Even the Marlboro man was not immune to the effects of cigarette smoking. Two actors who portrayed as ‘Marlboro Man’ died of lung cancer, a disease caused by cigarette smoking. The first Marlboro man Wayne McClaren appeared in the cigarette advertisement in the year 1976 and died of lung cancer in 1992. He lived for many years after being diagnosed lung cancer and promoted smoking-cessation campaigns. The second Marlboro man was David McClean who died of lung cancer in the year 1995. His family filed a suit against Phillip Morris, mentioning that David McClean had to smoke sometimes five packs of cigarettes a day, to complete commercial filming and print ad shoots for Marlboro cigarette.

This is a reality; no one can escape the effects of tobacco smoking. It is said that the first owner of the company which produced Marlboro cigarettes, Phillip Morris too, died of lung cancer. However, the validity of this statement is questionable because the cause of Phillip Morris’s death was not mentioned in biographies available online. But the possibility remains there…

In 1800s people used to smoke crude tobacco and cigars, then filters were introduced to save the cigarette industry from sales decline.

Popular books like Reader’s Digest’s have many a times conducted campaigns against smoking by warning people about its possible ill-effects on health especially cancer which made the medical and scientific journals address the issue of health concerns related with cigarette smoking.

Since then governments have taken different measures to regulate cigarette manufacturing and smoking. America recorded 124, 0000 deaths due to tobacco induced lung cancer from 1995 to 1999. Still men and women continue to take smoking pleasure. Some people just cannot imagine their life without puffs, how many of these know that smoking or other form of tobacco killed 440,000 people which make it about 20% of total deaths in the U.S. from 1995 to 1999!

As a smoker if you do not care about yourself its fine but what about your family? The environmental cigarette smoke can lead to passive smoking which may result in risk of lung cancer, heart disease, miscarriages and birth defects, developing asthma in children and adults, ear infections, aggravated asthma, allergies, and other conditions like learning difficulty in children and lung infection.

I understand that quit smoking is not easy, it takes a strong willpower and a lot of self discipline to fight against nicotine cravings. If you have tried to quit smoking and have failed to stand the nicotine cravings, I have good news for you. Chantix, the new medicine in the market, can help you immensely in your smoking cessation endeavor and help you stay quit for the rest of your life. Chantix is an anti-smoking medicine that helps you control your cravings. It has already helped many smokers to quit and has been included in many major anti-smoking programs because of its assured effectiveness. If you have really decided to quit smoking, but don’t know how to control your nicotine cravings, worry not! Chantix is there for your help. Just say YES to a smoke free healthy life and be a part of it.

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The author, Monalisa Hyden, addresses psychological and health related issues. If you wish to help yourself and your loved ones in quit smoking, you can log on to [http://www.chantixhome.com] for more information and advice.

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