Marlboro Cigarettes - noble sound of the word

In the United States of America published a book "101 most influential non-existent person." Its authors - Jeremy Salter, Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and - tells the story of the most influential fictional characters. What do you think, who is leading the list, the most popular myths of our time? Oddly enough, this is none other than macho native of America, the famous Marlboro Man, who became something of a national symbol of the United States. His name he inherited from his famous Count, a military genius, a talented politician and diplomat John Churchill - the first Duke of Marlborough. The creator of Philip Morris brand was confident that his product should be different refined, but having sufficient weight to the title. For the idea had not far to seek: in the middle of the 20th century a very popular figure in the world was a prominent politician, Winston Churchill, who compared with the famous Count. Winston Churchill was born November 30, 1874 in Blenheim Palace, the ancestral estate of the aristocratic family of Marlborough (Marlborough).

Blenheim Palace family of Marlborough

Philip Morris had in mind the noble sound of the word, but that's writing itself was too complex and cumbersome - Marlborough. Because he decided to get rid of a little blood - cut a word, removing not pleasing to him a letter. Since then the brand «Marlboro» to cut off the end of the beginning of the procession on the planet.

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However, all attempts to gloss and meet certain "elite" image - nothing more than a publicity stunt, which was coined by the best experts on public relations. The thing is that these cigarettes are initially directed their attempts at advertising the fair sex. "Soft as the breeze in May," in the 1920s, the tobacco industry products under the name "Marlboro" placed emphasis on the equality of men and women who follow fashion trends of emancipation. In the 1950s Philip Morris began to think about the need to change course. Not too popular brand tried to save his position, trying to avoid the disastrous results of actions of scientists. The thing is that at that time were released research data Luther Terry, under which he claimed a strong link smoking with lung cancer and chronic bronchitis. Such disclosure has long been feared all the tobacco corporations. And as it turned out, not without reason: in connection with an introduction to such information in 1953 in the U.S. for the first time the history of cigarettes significantly decreased their consumption. Of course, thinking about the health of ordinary American citizens, no one was going. The fact that cigarettes cause great harm to health, the owners of tobacco factories and heard, without any research, but do we know a lot of businessmen who care about something besides the well-being of themselves and their own family? So in this case, the actions were quite predictable. Tobacco companies immediately tried to refute this information, trying to convince Americans of the unreliability of research, and when such a move has not led to expected results, are recklessly accuse competitors in that they produce more harmful varieties. Of course, a large proportion of the charges were accounted for cigarettes, while products with the filter is completely harmless. At that time it was believed that these cigarettes - exclusively female domain, because brand "Marlboro" in this case was left on the horse. However, due to the reduction in cigarette consumption in general, Philip Morris might well fail, but because he urgently needed to teach American males to think that smoking cigarettes without a filter is not shameful. From now on, ladies' tobacco products were to become universal.