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During the '80s, many men and women were both former "cigarrette models" launched
attracted by the advertising campaign anti-smoking campaigns to warn the public
launched by Philip Morris. Filmed in the about the very harmful effects of
beautiful outdoors, the television smoking.
advertisements showed the hardy cowboy Smoking is more than just a habit, it is
lighting a cigarrette, relaxing in front very similar to drug abuse. Research
of a camp fire after a hard day's work. upon research has substantiated claims
The chilly, mountain night scene blended about the highly addictive content called
well with the lights and shadows created nicotine. At least one milligram of
by the camp fire. Any thought of cold nicotine is found in an average
temperature was extinguished by the cigarrette and acts as a stimulant. The
warmth of the fire, and the lit nicotine in the cigarrette causes glucose
cigarrette. Other versions of the to be released from the liver and the
commercial showed cowboys on horseback production of epinephrine --- both of
traversing wild, white rivers and which result to stimulation. It also
galloping across grazing lands of the activates the so-called reward pathways
West. The images are made more powerful in the brain which are responsible for
by the music composed by Elmer Bernstein the production of feelings of euphoria.
which was originally used for the '60s The average smoker will easily say that
Western film entitled Magnificent Seven. cigarrette smoking helps reduce stress
The score was used extensively in and anxiety. Others smoke right after
Marlboro commercials prior to the eating a large meal or during stressful
implementation of the cigarrette situations. Others see the cigarrette
advertisement ban. At the center of this as an importance prop or ingredient to
commercial was the quintessential their overall lifestyle. This reasoning
Marlboro Man --- rugged, tough, manly, should not come as a surprise especially
and a smoker. The commercial ends with if it comes from smokers who were born
an appealing invitation to, "Come to during the '30s to the '50s. Television
where the flavor is..." programs were usually interspersed with
Wayne McLaren and David McLean both cigarrette commercial during those eras.
played the iconic Marlboro Man in those In fact, during the '60s, it was very
series of commercials. Both men died of common to see t.v. and screen heroes
lung cancer and other medical smoking in reel and real life.
complications related to smoking. Those who became addicted to cigarrettes,
McLaren posed for some promotional whether they knew it or not, were really
posters of Marlboro in 1976 He was a on a path to self-destruction. To this
professional rodeo rider and appeared in day, many are still hooked on tobacco
some television series during the '70s. despite the cigarrette commercial ban and
He smoked a one pack and half every the aggressive anti-smoking campaign by
single day. By age 49, he was already government health agencies. Indeed,
diagnosed with lung cancer. He smoking cigarrettes is not an adventure
underwent chemotherapy that led to the as once portrayed in commercials.
removal of one of his lungs. However, Tobacco addiction is, in truth, a habit
when he began the treatments, the cancer that quite literally leads to the grave.
cells had already spread to his brain and Fortunately, for those who want to kick
eventually killed him. David McLean the deadly habit, "cold turkey" methods
started smoking at the tender age of 12 and anti-smoking medications are now
and continued his habit until he was available to help them stop puffing their
diagnosed with emphysema in 1985. By lives away.
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his brain and spine. Before they died,






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