Joe Camel was a legendary cartoon character. What are you favorite memories of Joe Camel?
I wish we still had cartoon characters advertising cigarettes.
ITT: we discuss the greatest cartoon character of all time
Joe Camel was a legendary cartoon character. What are you favorite memories of Joe Camel?
I wish we still had cartoon characters advertising cigarettes.
you know that you can't post porn on blue boards?
What's pornographic about Joe Camel?
That a penis anon.
That's just how camels look, goof
He looks weird but I appreciate the art.
I play YGO at my local nerd store. My pal has a playmat of Joe Camel from back in the day where you could get smoker points or something like that.
>smoker points
It was called Camel Cash
I bought a Camel ashtray at a thrift store recently and it's been really useful for putting my tiny figure accessories into.
That's about my only experience with Ole Joe Camel.
I looove when company's selling addicting poison directly market and advertise said poison to children
Look at him, playing a grand piano in a night club setting, attending car events, going to Vegas - all things specifically targeted to 40 year old innocent babies. How dare they!
it was objectively proven he was as recognizable to young kids as the Disney logo and camel's share of under 18 smokers notably increased during the campaign
They still do they just use vapes now
His nose looks like my peepee.
You should see a doctor.
I remember when bored suburban women started saying Joe Camel was designed to appeal to children.
Absolutely nothing about this "cartoon" appealed to kids. No animation, no jokes, no characterization, no comics. It was an 1800s mascot for the imported middle eastern tobacco used to flavor the burley base, nothing more.
But "muh children", especially the poor little kids over the age of 21 who could buy a 6 dollar pack of cigarettes.
Cigarettes were like just over two bucks in the early 90’s.
Women ruin everything.
Joe Camel was a much more modern creation. He doesn't date that far back in the brand's history. I don't think he was designed to appeal to kids, although kids certainly noticed him the way they'd notice things not designed for them like South Park characters, R-Rated movie posters with big muscular gun toting dudes, etc.
>But "muh children", especially the poor little kids over the age of 21 who could buy a 6 dollar pack of cigarettes.
The average price of a pack of cigarettes in the United States was around a buck in the '80s and even adjusted for inflation didn't get above a few dollars until the 2000s. Plus you could easily buy them out of a vending machine in front of your average convenience store in a lot of states. That wasn't widely banned until around 2010.
Pretty much all a kid would need to do is ask their parents for some money to buy some candy or a comic book.
My uncle talks fondly about regularly riding his bike to the store as an 11 year old and buying cigarettes out of the vending machine.
I'm 36, and I have never seen a cigarette vending machine in my life.
I'm 35. I've seen them at bars before.
I guarantee the company tested the character and the campaign in front of kids.
But how does a Camel connect to children
He's killed millions.
It's not the camel's fault people couldn't manage their stress without negative coping mechanisms. Cancer was a symptom, not a cause of people's lack of personal responsibility.
Cancer from smoking is so rare that the majority of people who smoke will never have contract it
t. cartoon camel with penis face
>used to have masculine mascots like Joe Camel
>now we have beta mascots like the Coca Cola bears
What happened to society?
He lived a full life
camelsisters... our response?
i remember the DARE guy at our middle school passing these images around printed on paper saying "remember the camel mascot? this is him now because he smoked" even though none of us knew what camel cigarettes were because we were dumb middle schoolers
lmao, what year was this? I'd be surprised if many kids born in ~1994 or later had any idea who Joe Camel was since Camel got rid of him in 1997.
Also as part of the tobacco master settlement (it was a big legal settlement to settle all the lawsuits different states had filed against different tobacco companies) tobacco companies agreed not to use cartoon characters to market their products. We will never have another Joe Camel, another Willy the Penguin, or see Fred Flintstone shilling Winstons again.
And yes, The Flinstones really did do cigarette ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c
I meant to post Willie The Penguin. I saw this standee at an antique fair (not this exact one, the one I saw wasn't in this good of condition) for $50 and regret not buying it. I probably could have talked them down to $40.
I'm always cautious about buying stuff like tobacciana that I'm not super familiar with. I make most of my money buying and reselling antiques and vintage stuff. I mostly buy stuff I know about because it's easy to get absolutely roasted (especially by a dealer) if you don't know about what you're buying.
I've been doing research for a comic set in 1956 or so. I had no idea tobacco was so central to American life. At one point McDonalds had ashtrays. You could be cigarettes out of vending machines. During WWII, c-rations had mini cigarette packs...
Wait until you find out that The White House and congress used to have spittoons so dudes could spit tobacco juice
Dickens on chewing tobacco when he visited America
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When Charles Dickens wrote about the “handsomely carpeted” chambers of the House and Senate in 1842, he gave visitors this advice: Do not look at the floor, and if you drop anything, do not pick it up “with an ungloved hand on any account.”
So prevalent was chewing tobacco — and so bad was the aim — that the condition of the carpets, Dickens wrote, “do not admit of being described.
Cigarettes, chocolate and Coca-Cola were the 3 Cs the GIs wanted with their rations
I'm old enough to remember smoking areas in restaurants at least.
I smoke maybe 2 cigarettes a month. Tobacco is like cake. It's a sometimes thing, not an every day thing.
+ we need fanart of Flo Camel.
Cake is made of food, maybe not the best food for your body but it'll do its thing. Cigarettes are actual poison, they do literally nothing but attack your organs
One or two Cigarettes a month is like one or two gunshot wounds a month.
Stop smoking, moron
the sky is falling.
There actually are health benefits of nicotine and tobacco in moderation.
>There are no health benefits from smoking
What about getting to leave my home so I don't have to listen to my wife?
>One or two Cigarettes a month is like one or two gunshot wounds a month.
This has to be a troll post.
Yeah and caffiene is a legal drug they used when cocaine in drinks was outlawed
>no qt smoking camel to go on cool motor-cycle rides with
I need a Netflix animated series where every teenager gets an assigned smoking camel that acts sorts like a guardian angel only the kid can see but all they do is try and get the kid to smoke
Ok i want to frick the girl camel now. Anymore Joe ads with cute camel girls?
Is it just me, or does this club seem very...gay.
>clussy
Ah, the rare Camel's Camel-Camel-Toe
I'd prefer if he had more of natural camel face, stuff like where it's the camel muzzle is bizzare
the world was better when everyone smoked
at least people weren't obese and on mind bending anti-depression medication
Cigarettes are anti-depression medication you moron. The difference being that the side effects kill you instead of just making you want to die.
I fail to see what kind of point you think you trying to make
>OOOOOH y'all finna think this drug is better than this other drug
yes...it literally was better.
oh there were then. Alcohol and injected barbituates were standard for PTSD. Barbituates were sleeping pills as well. Meth was sold as pep pills. Modern medicine just makes is less likely you'll drown while making soup.
He really was the epitome of cool. I learned that the Budweiser Frogs were discontinued because kids knew about them too.
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For me, it was the Bud Chameleons
Loved these commercials
Straight edge gays need the rope.
I liked his Blues band, The Hard Pack
Hard Pack hivemind
OP here, I forgot to post my Joe Camel mug. It looks small because the can of anchovies was gigantic.
I keep my eye out for Joe Camel stuff when I go to estate sales. I occasionally find it although that mug is the only thing I've kept.
The moms were right, I was a little kid back then and thought he and the gang looked cool, so smoking felt cool
Never smoked though
could it be that you were a slow child?
Maybe
old 1950s ad with old Ronnie.
I wish I could find unfiltereds in my area.
A specialty tobacco shop might be your best bet. I chew tobacco and it's a goddamn pain in the ass to find chew around here. Almost everywhere with tobacco has dipping tobacco (the stuff that comes in cans) but the actual shredded chewing tobacco is harder to find. Maybe 30% of places that sell tobacco have America's Best Chew (formerly Red Man: pic related), and far, far fewer have Levi Garret or Beech-Nut which are my preferred chews. It's a disgrace that chewing tobacco is no longer a beloved product.
Walt Disney loved the smell of pipe tobacco, but he was so high strung that he wouldn't sit down and learn how to smoke one. He chain smoked cigarettes. When Chuck Jones went to work for Disney, Disney intentionally hung around Jones specifically because Jones smoked a pipe (which smells like burning caramel and raisins). Disney also threw his weight around and pissed Jones off all the time.
Disneyland even has a tobacco shop on mainstreet with cigars, cigarettes, and pipe tobacco with Disney packaging. Today these are very collectable.
Can cigars still frick you up? I heard you aren't supposed to inhale with cigars so I guess there's less of a chance of getting cancer?
They can, but it's all about moderation. Sigmund Freud smoked upwards of 20 cigars every single day, got jaw cancer, quit... for 2 months, and started right back up. He died of cancer - and from being 83 years old.
Ullyses S. Grant also smoked 20 cigars a day, but he was also a completely obese drunkard. He died of throat cancer at 63.
The lesson is, don't drink or be fat. Smoke in moderation, and don't inhale. With pipes or cigars, you don't inhale. Some smoke does get in the lungs, but not much. If you do inhale, you're going to get nicotine sickness, turn white, and puke.
my mother smoked 2 cartons of Marlboros a week from 14 to 62. That's 3 packs a day, which is about the volume of tobacco in 2 corona sized cigars. She died of lung cancer at 62. Stay away from cigarettes.
The lesson is, don't get addicted to literal poison you drooling mongoloid. How moronic one has to be to become a cigar(ette) addict and pay a shitload of money to breath in some shitty smoke? At least alcohol and drugs have consciousness-altering properties that make you feel good before they make you feel bad, and some of the latter can be very addictive. It's also very easy to get addicted to food, because all people need to it to live. But fricking smokes? They don't do anything pleasurable, instead they make first timers hack up a lung and often barf. Then they smoke more and more overpriced smoke sticks until they become addicted, they and all their belongings start smelling like shit, their health deteriorates, and then they get lung cancer and die. Fricking why? Might as well breath in exhaust fumes and get it over with.
It really will frick most people right up and end most shitty situations short of someone holding a gun on you. I know there are some people that aren't affected by CS gas or have a tolerance to the capsaicin stuff but a good blend of that out of a fogger and anyone alive is as good as dead for the next 2-4 hours and you don't have to go through the hassle of buying more ammo. Even when I carry a pistol I still carry a blended spray. Also looks a lot better in court if you used non lethal to try to stop someone before lethal was necessary if that's an option.
Absolutely. Think of it this way. Each cigar is effectively deliberate secondhand smoke exposure. There's less of a chance, because you can't really inhale as much and chain smoke them like you do cigarettes. There is no moderate safe level. That said, they won't make your head explode if you take one.
Also, good luck finding girls who like the smell of old cigar smoke.
I think Spuds because of his sportsball sponsorships, and because it's easier to hide beer breath than smoke.
Would also say a little dog seems more approachable than a giant camel man if they're both strangers to the kids.
I remember when I was a kid there was a restaurant in Mexico that sold Arabic tacos and it was entirely decorated with pictures of Joe Camel.
I actually really liked these ads when i was a kid and it did nake smoking seem pretty cool
My aunt used to work at camel so I have an attic full of neon signs, posters, etc.
Please post pictures
Damn Camel neon would be a sweet
People who drink, smoke, take drugs absolutely baffle and disgust me.
Autists and weird cult members baffle and disgust me and seem to be the only teetolers who go all vegan about it.
I grew up around family members who smoke, so I developed an hatred for it but I never had issue with Joe, it's just a mascot. If parents should watch their kids better, if your kid can get cig behind your back that your problem no the mascots.
Who wins this?
Ferrari started sucking after they had to drop Marlboro. Now they're a joke, a ghost of their former selves.
They should reboot him, adults also like cartoons.