winston man dies of throat cancer

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The Columbus Dispatch : 'Winston man' in cigarette ads dies of cancer

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Alan Landers in 1995

LAUDERHILL, Fla. -- Alan Landers, the handsome model who posed for Winston cigarette ads in the 1960s and 1970s and later tried to fight the tobacco industry in court, has died after battling throat cancer. He was 68.
Landers, who had been undergoing treatment, died Friday at his south Florida home, his niece, Robin Levine Carns, said.
"He lived a very positive life. Very strong, loved life," Carns said.
Landers, whose legal name was Allan Levine, started smoking as a child and said he cycled through up to four cartons of cigarettes a day while posing for billboards and magazine ads as the self-proclaimed "Winston Man."
"He was just such a star for us in our family," said Carns, who was a child during Landers' heyday as a model. "He was just such a celebrity."
Landers said he lost his mother, father, brother, grandmother, aunt and uncle to cancer. Yet during his years as a cigarette model, Landers said he didn't know he was glamorizing a fatal habit.

 

[BUCKYLE]

He was no Marlboro Man.

 

[DaytonBuck]

Some cowboys go out like that

 

[BUCKYLE]

Some cowboys go out like that

 

[OCBucksFan]

The ironing is delicious.

 

[OCBuckWife]

Four cartons a DAY? That's 800 cigarettes A DAY, 10 packs of 20 each!

Assume 8-9 hours of sleep out of every 24 hours, thats 15 hours of wakefulness at 53 cigarettes AN HOUR. That's almost one cigarette PER MINUTE with some time to swig a gulp of beer maybe.


No way. He would have had to have sucked down a cigarette like some girls suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. I call fucking shenanigans.

 

[Jake]

He would have had to have sucked down a cigarette like some girls suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. I call fucking shenanigans.

Shenanigans, shmanigans, let's talk about those girls.

 

[BayBuck]

 

[BB73]

No way. He would have had to have sucked down a cigarette like some girls suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. I call fucking shenanigans.

You call shenanigans, but I wanna call those girls - do you have any of their numbers?

 

[AKAK]

Four cartons a DAY? That's 800 cigarettes A DAY, 10 packs of 20 each!

Assume 8-9 hours of sleep out of every 24 hours, thats 15 hours of wakefulness at 53 cigarettes AN HOUR. That's almost one cigarette PER MINUTE with some time to swig a gulp of beer maybe.


No way. He would have had to have sucked down a cigarette like some girls suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. I call fucking shenanigans.

I think what they are saying is while he was doing the ads, that many would be lit... you have to have your model cigarette burned the right amount.

Think of it like not drinking the whole beer in every take.

 

[OCBuckWife]

I think what they are saying is while he was doing the ads, that many would be lit... you have to have your model cigarette burned the right amount.

Think of it like not drinking the whole beer in every take.

Even if he didn't smoke the whole thing, he smoked it to whatever point was needed. It isn't like not smoking an entire cigarette is any less damaging than smoking partial, especially so if it is still as often as stated. So I am not sure I understand the argument.

*edit* Unless you implying there was some kind of "stunt double" doing the partial smoking but that isn't something I would say would be a fair assumption from the statement in the article as it stands. *edit*