<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Yes, Mr. Dredge (and the rest of you struggling to establish a link between the article and my claim regarding my spouse and I). </div><div><br></div><div>Rodna (my spouse) and I stopped smoking cigarettes about twenty years ago.</div><div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div><div><br>On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Scott Dredge <<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div dir="ltr">Clarification - when you write below that you 'stopped smoking about twenty years ago' do you mean that you 'stopped smoking *cigarettes* about twenty years ago'?<br><br>Something to think about...<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:32:41 -0800<br>To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Something to think about . . .<br><br><div><span></span></div><div><div style=""><span></span></div><div><div style="">Courtesy of USA Today at:</div><div style=""><br></div><div><span style=""><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/26/ex-marlboro-man-dies/4926469/" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/26/ex-marlboro-man-dies/4926469/</a></span></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">-----------------------------------</div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:32px;line-height:34px;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:32px;line-height:34px;"><b>Ex-Marlboro Man dies from smoking-related disease</b></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lawson died Jan. 10 at his home in San Luis Obispo of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife, Susan Lawson said Sunday.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lawson was an actor with bit parts on such TV shows as "Baretta" and "The Streets of San Francisco" when he was hired to appear in print Marlboro ads from 1978 to 1981. His other credits include "Charlie's Angels," ''Dynasty" and "Baywatch." His wife said injuries sustained on the set of a Western film ended his career in 1997.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A smoker since age 14, Lawson later appeared in an anti-smoking commercial that parodied the Marlboro man and an "Entertainment Tonight" segment to discuss the negative effects of smoking. Susan said her husband was proud of the interview, even though he was smoking at the time and continued the habit until he was diagnosed with COPD.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"He knew the cigarettes had a hold on him," she said. "He knew, yet he still couldn't stop."</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few actors and models who pitched Marlboro brand cigarettes have died of smoking-related diseases. They include David Millar, who died of emphysema in 1987, and David McLean, who died of lung cancer in 1995.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lawson was also survived by six children, 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.</span></div><div style=""><div id="ecxmodule-position-M7P6ZsbO3a4" class="ecxstory-asset ecximage-asset"></div></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">-----------------------------------</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Rodna and I stopped smoking about twenty years ago. It is one of the healthiest decisions we have ever made.<br><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================
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