Alan Lander -- Cancer kills cigarette model
Alan Lander, aka the Winston Man, has died of throat and lung cancer, believed to be related to smoking, at 68.
Alan Landers (Newsday.com)
Landers was a model and actor who was the face of Winston cigarettes in the 1960s and early '70s. By the late '80s, Lander suffered from several illnesses he attributed to a lifetime of smoking. For the last 14 years, he had been involved in legal battles with R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies.
From Newsday.com
As courts wrestled with the legal issues, Mr. Landers pleaded for tobacco reform in Washington and Tallahassee and traveled the globe for the World Health Organization.
"I helped save lives," he told a Sun Sentinel reporter for a story that appeared shortly before his death. "I told the truth: Eventually, smoking will kill you. It's slow. But it'll kill you."
He is survived by a brother, Jack Levine, of Destin; Robin Levine Carns and other nieces and nephews. No funeral service has been planned.
Alan Landers (Newsday.com)Landers was a model and actor who was the face of Winston cigarettes in the 1960s and early '70s. By the late '80s, Lander suffered from several illnesses he attributed to a lifetime of smoking. For the last 14 years, he had been involved in legal battles with R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies.
From Newsday.com
As courts wrestled with the legal issues, Mr. Landers pleaded for tobacco reform in Washington and Tallahassee and traveled the globe for the World Health Organization.
"I helped save lives," he told a Sun Sentinel reporter for a story that appeared shortly before his death. "I told the truth: Eventually, smoking will kill you. It's slow. But it'll kill you."
He is survived by a brother, Jack Levine, of Destin; Robin Levine Carns and other nieces and nephews. No funeral service has been planned.
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