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Subject: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: LyricBoy on 11/09/19 at 8:18 pm
Legendary cowboy and cigarette promoter Bob Norris has passed away at the age of 90. :\'( He was the Marlboro Man.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/11/09/us/robert-norris-marlboro-man-death-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DNorris
Norris hawked Marlboros for 14 years. This was back in the day when men were men and real cowboys smoked like a coal fired power plant. 8)
Curiously, in real life, Norris never smoked. ???
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: nally on 11/09/19 at 8:37 pm
Curiously, in real life, Norris never smoked. ???
Wow. I never would've thought that. :o
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/19 at 3:37 am
Curiously, in real life, Norris never smoked. ???
One wonders did he know that cigarettes are harmful?
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: LyricBoy on 11/10/19 at 5:47 am
The irony of the Marlboro Man is that he was pitching a filtered cig that was originally designed for, and marketed to, women. ;D
Back in my day, real men smoked Pall Mall unfiltered. Next best thing to inhaling an ignited match.
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/19 at 5:54 am
The irony of the Marlboro Man is that he was pitching a filtered cig that was originally designed for, and marketed to, women. ;D
It was Edward Bernays, the Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, that first promoted female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom", his best-known campaign from 1929.
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: Howard on 11/10/19 at 7:16 am
The irony of the Marlboro Man is that he was pitching a filtered cig that was originally designed for, and marketed to, women. ;D
Back in my day, real men smoked Pall Mall unfiltered. Next best thing to inhaling an ignited match.
I thought they always smoked those skinny cigarettes? ???
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: Howard on 11/10/19 at 7:16 am
One wonders did he know that cigarettes are harmful?
Did he read the label on the back?
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/19 at 7:26 am
Did he read the label on the back?
What years was Bob Norris the Marlboro Man?
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: Howard on 11/10/19 at 7:40 am
What years was Bob Norris the Marlboro Man?
I'm guessing during the early 1980's?
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: LyricBoy on 11/10/19 at 7:55 am
What years was Bob Norris the Marlboro Man?
I'm guessing during the early 1980's?
I did some more research. Norris was not actually the ORIGINAL Marlboro Man. He portrayed the Man from some time in the 1960s until the early 1970s.
He quit after his son asked him why he was out there pitching cancer sticks while he forbade them to do the same.
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/19 at 8:12 am
I did some more research. Norris was not actually the ORIGINAL Marlboro Man. He portrayed the Man from some time in the 1960s until the early 1970s.
He quit after his son asked him why he was out there pitching cancer sticks while he forbade them to do the same.
Thank you for your research on this, for I know that health warnings on cigarette packets in 1969.
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: Howard on 11/10/19 at 2:02 pm
Thank you for your research on this, for I know that health warnings on cigarette packets in 1969.
My Father stopped smoking well over 30 years ago as he developed small bouts of coughing later on so now he uses an inhaler in the morning.
Subject: Re: Light Up a Smoke for Bob Norris
Written By: nally on 11/10/19 at 2:06 pm
I did some more research. Norris was not actually the ORIGINAL Marlboro Man. He portrayed the Man from some time in the 1960s until the early 1970s.
Ah, that is helpful to know too.
He quit after his son asked him why he was out there pitching cancer sticks while he forbade them to do the same.
Yeah, good question.