Wayne McLaren
Wayne McLaren (* 12. September 1940 as Lawrence Gilbert McLaren in Lake Charles , Louisiana ; † 22. July 1992 in Newport Beach , California ) was an American fashion model . From 1976 he worked as an advertising character ( Marlboro Man ) for the cigarette brand Marlboro .
Life
McLaren smoked a pack and a half of cigarettes a day before developing lung cancer in 1990 . Chemotherapy and removal of a lung could not stop the cancer as the disease spread and metastasized in the brain . Two years after the diagnosis, he succumbed to his ailment.
McLaren launched an anti-tobacco campaign in response to his illness. Shortly before his death, pictures of him were shown in an anti-smoking spot, once as a cowboy and then as a terminally ill man in the bed of a hospital. His brother, Charles McLaren, voices the spot and notes that the tobacco industry promotes an independent lifestyle. However, looking at his sick brother, the question arises of how independent a smoker really is.
A few minutes before his death he said to his daughters: “I am ending my life under the oxygen tent . I tell you, smoking is not worth it. ”One of his daughters is the most famous anti-tobacco activist in the United States and says that her father did not die in vain because he opened the eyes to the world.
In the US feature film Thank You for Smoking from 2005, the character of 'Lorne Lutch' (played by Sam Elliott ) is based on Wayne McLaren.
Web links
- Wayne McLaren in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Images by Wayne McLaren
- "Bob, I've got cancer." (PDF; 259 kB) - a pastiche of the WHO in Marlboro style
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McLaren, Wayne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American model |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lake Charles , Louisiana , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1992 |
| Place of death | Newport Beach , California , United States |