Wayne McLaren

Wayne McLaren ( born September 12, 1940 in Lake Charles, Louisiana; † July 22, 1992 in Newport Beach, California ) was an American fashion model. In 1976, he worked as an advertising figure ( Marlboro Man) for the cigarette brand Marlboro.

He smoked one and a half packs a day before he fell ill in 1990 from lung cancer. Chemotherapy and the removal of a lung could not stop the cancer because the disease and caused scattered metastases in the brain. Two years after diagnosis, he succumbed to his sufferings.

McLaren started as a reaction to his disease an anti tobacco campaign. Shortly before his death pictures were shown of him in an anti - smoking commercial. Once a cowboy and then die as a sick man in a hospital bed. His brother, Charles McLaren, accompanied vocally spot and notes that the tobacco industry is propagating an independent lifestyle. However, imagine the sight of his sick brother's question, how independent is a smoker in real life.

A few minutes before his death he said to his daughters: " I finish my life under the oxygen tent. I tell you that smoking is not worth it. " One of his daughters is the best known anti-tobacco activist in the United States and says that her father had not died in vain, as he had opened the world 's eyes.

In the U.S. feature film Thank You for Smoking by 2005, the figure of Lorne Lutch (played by Sam Elliott ) is based on Wayne McLaren.