It was announced yesterday that Marlboro Man actor Eric Lawson died from smoking-related chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases on Jan. 10.
During the late 1970s, Lawson appeared in print Marlboro ads as a ruggedly masculine cowboy and was himself a lifelong smoker since the age of 14.
In later years, he parodied the famous ads with an anti-smoking commercial, but continued to struggle with smoking until his diagnosis of COPD.
“He knew the cigarettes had a hold on him,” said his wife, Susan. “He knew, yet he still couldn’t stop. Read more at The Washington Post.
{Andy Heller-Matzav.com Newscenter}
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May the sad circumstances of his illness and death convince more people to give up smoking.
Being tied down to one’s addiction (“What should I do, I can’t stop?!”) is being an eved to a beheima (the nefesh habehamis)
See the Lev Shalom (R’ Shalom Schwadron) on Parshas Mishpatim (p. 249), there’s a nice piece on Eved Nirtza.
Being tied down to one’s addiction (“What should I do? I can’t stop?!) is being an eved to a beheima (the Nefesh Habehamis).
See the Lev Shalom (R’ Shalom Schwadron, p. 249), there’s a nice piece on Eved Nirtza.
And nebach how many Yidden cannot stop??
Limaaseh, the guy lived a long life.