If aired on national TV today, maybe Camel cigarette ad campaign version "More Doctor Smoke Camels than Any Other Cigarrettes!" will be the most condemned ad by anti-tobacco activists and doctors. But this ad was made and aired in 1949. In one version of the print ads, they even made such claim:
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113,597 DOCTORS FROM COAST TO COAST WERE ASKED!
According to this recent Nationwide survey:
More Doctors Smoke Camels THAN ANY OTHER CIGARETTE!
This is no casual claim. It’s an actual fact. Based on the statements of doctors themselves to three nationally known independent research organizations.
THE question was very simple. One that you . .. any smoker . . . might ask a doctor: “What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor?”
After all, doctors are human too. Like you, they smoke for pleasure. Their taste, like yours, enjoys the pleasing flavor of costlier tobaccos. Their throats too appreciate a cool mildness.
And more doctors named Camels than any other cigarette!
If you are a Camel smoker, this preference for Camels among physicians and surgeons will not surprise you. But if you are not now smoking
Camels, try them. Compare them in your “T-Zone.”
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I hate cigarettes, but somehow to me it looks as funny ads than provocative. Just another form of innocence from the past.
1949 TV commercial from Camel cigarettes:
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