re: Pictures from days gone by....

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It’s funny that Marlboro, what most of us who grew up between the 60s to the 80s, view as a “man’s smoke” thanks to the iconic “Marlboro Man”…


… was originally viewed as a woman’s cigarette when it was introduced in the 1920s. Marlboro was one of the first filtered cigarettes, which at that time made it a “woman’s” cigarette as men typically smoked unfiltered cigarettes.





In the early 1950s, the first scientific studies connecting cigarettes to lung cancer were published. Phillip Morris sought to change the perception of Marlboro as a woman’s cigarette in order to entice men who were worried about lung cancer to switch to the filtered Marlboro as a safer alternative to unfiltered cigarettes. Thus, the Marlboro Man was born in the mid 1950s.

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Those would roll up your legs if you were not careful

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Permanent scar on back of my calf from wheel cover on one when I flipped it (front wheel went into rut). Lucky I wasn't killed.

This image is somehow symbolic of modern America

F4U Corsair coming in to land on the Essex Class Carrier USS Bunker Hill, Feb. 1945 during the carrier raids of the Japanese anchorage at Truk Atoll.

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Didn't several Marlboro Men die of lung cancer?

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And several Duffmans too.

Charley Conerly, Ole Miss All-American and NY Giant, was the first Marlboro Man.

And yes, he eventually died of lung cancer.

Yup, this is him-

"The Strange Case Of Death In The West"

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According to the opening narrator, in 1976 the Thames company interviewed executives of the Phillip Morris company for a documentary on cigarettes. When Phillip Morris saw the results, they were outraged. Phillip Morris claims that Thames took great efforts to disguise the purpose of the interviews and took the matter to court in Britain. The courts ordered that all copies of the documentary were to be turned over the Phillip Morris. Well, one copy wasn't and became the subject of this documentary, "The Strange Case Of Death In The West"
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Death in the West is considered to be one of the finest documentaries ever made. It was originally produced for British television and vigorously suppressed by tobacco interests. This powerful expose of cigarette advertising myths juxtaposes the healthy independent image of the Marlboro man, defended in revealing interviews with tobacco industry executives, with the stark reality of six smoking cowboys, all dying of smoking-induced illnesses. The video increases perception of the hazards of smoking, creates skepticism about cigarette advertising, and discourages young viewers from starting to smoke.

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Why no turtleneck sweaters?

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It’s codespeak for uncut dudes.

Le Pétomane

He was a magnificent farter
On the strength of one bean
He’d fart god save the queen
And Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata

Man, there are some thousand-yard stares in that photo.