Closing Down Marlboro Country

For ages, the mysterious chiseled chin man riding around Marlboro country and smoking his brains out has been a fervent standard for the rugged and manly. The Marlboro cowboy like many other celebrity figures associated with tobacco have help perpetuate and inherit the terrible vice of smoking. Movies show more men smoking or holding a pack of cigarettes than women in similar positions. Besides movies, television and advertisement (including product positioning in movies) have long allowed to relate strong desirable men with smoking and cigarettes. Read more

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