WINSTON MAN, DYING OF CANCER, SUES R.J. REYNOLDS..

February 19, 2009 - Former Winston cigarette model Alan Landers has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds Co., claiming his former employers' product destroyed his health. In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Landers, who appeared in hundreds of ads for Winston cigarettes in the 1960s and '70s and who is now battling late-stage throat and lung cancer, said, "They created the illusion that smoking was cool but they knew when I was doing the campaign that it caused lung cancer and that it was the most addictive drug the world has ever known. ... They should be held accountable for killing people."

Reference: WINSTON MAN, DYING OF CANCER, SUES R.J. REYNOLDS, contactmusic.com, 2/17/2009.

Some of us remember the last Marlboro Man Wayne McLaren who died of lung cancer at age 51 in 1992 after 30 years of smoking.

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