Christine Dorgan has a box full of swag and gear she ordered with points from the back of her Marlboro cigarette packs: a watch, a dart board, a portable picnic table. And last year, just as the pandemic hit, she won her most coveted prize: a trip to the Marlboro Ranch.
The trip, like so many vacations, was canceled by Covid-19. And now she will never get the chance to go. In June, cigarette maker Philip Morris USAwhere the company for two decades had hosted loyal customers on all-expense-paid trips. As cigarette smoking declines, so does its trappings. “I signed up for that thing I don’t know how many times,” said Ms. Dorgan, a 54-year-old diesel mechanic who lives in Windom, Minn. A smoker since the age of 12, she quit last year shortly before she won the Marlboro trip in a sweepstakes, but still wanted to go. “I wanted to see a real cowboy,” she said.
The getaway, formally known as Crazy Mountain Ranch, was a real-life incarnation of the cigarette maker’s Marlboro Man marketing campaigns, which featured gruff cowboys riding horses and snowy Western peaks. It was Disneyland for smokers. Guests stayed in a faux ghost town, with a mining office, bank, sheriff’s office and saloon. When they arrived, their beds were piled with gifts: Stetson hats, cowboy boots, jackets, bandannas, digital cameras, sunglasses, ashtrays and, in earlier years, packs of cigarettes.
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Get healthy folks. Smoking is a killer.
This is distressing to hear, I need a smoke
Any time's a good time to try to quit.
What year is it?
I think I'll take up smoking
When is Marlboro getting into the cannabis business... I can't just see them dropping their complete business model for the greater good. If they are, they probably would actual deserve statues. God knows that I tried to quit for years... it's a tough nut to crack.
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Yes; We have made the typical mistake of deciding some thing once considered beneficial and part of civilized life to be destructive. There's a scarcity of appropriate places to smoke, when it once was you could light up in a university classroom, as Einstein was wont to do.
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I suggest using this ranch for covid negationists. If there's some space left, for anti-vaccines.
WE, HERE IN THE VALLEY LIKED THE 'MARLBORO RANCH' EVEN AS A NON-SMOKER. IT WAS GOOD FOR THE VALLEY TO BRING IN VISITORS..
A real cowboy? Lol
What a stupid reason to quit. The only thing stupider is writing an article about it.
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