Tabatha Southey considers the place of the modern camel in history
Tag Archives: Camels
An udderly new camel business
Camel milk may be for sale in the EU sooner than expected
Save the earth, kill a camel
Australia is turning its cross-hairs on gassy camels
Best Cigarette Advertising Campaign Evah
This was just e-mailed to me, and I can’t believe I didn’t think to look for it online: my favourite cigarette ad campaign ever, Camel’s “More Doctors Smoke Camels!” campaign. I first heard this on an old tape of Abbott and Costello radio shows from the ’40s, and this is the TV version. It is essentially the same as the radio version — same slogan, probably even the same announcer — except that it ends with a shot of a woman who is either not a doctor or the most elegantly-dressed medical professional in the world. Because one of the early rules of TV advertising was to get a hot woman into the commercial, no matter what the product was.