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Crabbiepanda@reddit

Pool shark. Bartender. Don’t smoke motivational speaker - because he probably has cancer now and talks with one of those voice box things

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bmaayhem@reddit

I sure could go for a cigarette right now…..

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Good-Operation4373@reddit

For my marketing project in college I did how not to market to kids- Joe Chemo-

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Sure but not as much as I knew spud Mackenzie. It’s weird that 8 years old me could get expensive stickers of either of them regularly available at sticker machines. ![gif](giphy|ENhBCR3alQVLa)

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I was obsessed with Spuds as a kid. OP, I was far too much of a goody-two-shoes to have Camel Cash but I did save up enough Kool-Aid Points to get a T-shirt or fanny pack or temporary tattoo or something. That counts for something, right? ^(Right?!)

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AdDiligent4628@reddit

Did you get the Kool-Aid man pitcher and cups? Still counts, imo.

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bgva@reddit

I wanna say yes? I know I got a shirt.

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JohnnyMurdock2020@reddit

He was great marketing, but was actually a few female dogs.

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Embarrassed_Key_4539@reddit

They are trying to make people smoke cigarettes again, at least in my state, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they brought him back out of retirement to capture the kiddie market from the vapes

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EatLard@reddit

The big marketing these days seems to be nicotine pouches.

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AdDiligent4628@reddit

Within the past few months, Zyn had a special at one of the local grocery store/gas stations - Buy ANY nicotine product, get a free can of Zyns. Unless buying Zyns, then eff you. I'm still bitter.

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EatLard@reddit

I got some free zyns buying General snus during that deal. Still not a big fan of zyn. Velo+ is better, as gas station brands go.

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

Yeah problem is I can't seem to keep those lit.

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EatLard@reddit

Gotta put ‘em in a spoon and melt them.

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Few_Body3759@reddit

I open them and pour them on the table, then you know, sort & snort!!

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Embarrassed_Key_4539@reddit

Those are synthetic too, the tobacco farmers aren’t happy about it

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AdDiligent4628@reddit

Bartender at a dive bar, still smoking and bragging about his "famous days." Or a regular, at said bar.

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puddin_pop83@reddit

Camel crush. I still have my last pack i bought when I quit in 2019. Just reminds not to do it.

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AdDiligent4628@reddit

Oh, the ball of effervescence! I'm sure they were healthier than a regular menthol /s

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Pankosmanko@reddit

Know him? Bro sat in my pocket for years. Love me some camels. Shame I quit smoking but man do I miss a smooth menthol camel or Newport

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BongwaterJoe1983@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/ykr0g3n3m1fg1.jpeg?width=748&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e31ac172295ec4880fff55ce08ffed7b60c1a2d Stier in high school 🚬⚰️

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JohnnyMurdock2020@reddit

Think I still have the tins in a box from working at 711 back in my college days.

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AdDiligent4628@reddit

I miss the Camel menthol Wides, but I don't miss the stank.

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SaltyD0gg0h@reddit

Newports w/ a rippit or two and that's my deployments back then

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TacoTornadoes@reddit

The last time I had a Newport was around the fire pit in Dehana Afghanistan

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smrt_raccoon@reddit

And of course you have a stockpile of ripits. Prob more cancerous than the burn pits and menthols.

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Intrepidstoner@reddit

This guy GWOTs

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sk3tchy_D@reddit

A Camel rep actually stopped me from buying Malboros once back when I was just old enough to legally buy them myself. I told him I was getting Marlboros because they were cheaper, so he gave me stacks of coupons. By the time they ran out Camel was my brand. I miss it sometimes too, then I remember the yearly bronchitis that always stuck around for weeks and stinking like an ashtray all the time.

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K2sX@reddit

Camel reps at bars/clubs kept me stocked for most of my 20s

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mrjowei@reddit

Newport or Benson for me

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BubbaArmySayIt@reddit

Camel exotic blends were the absolute shit!!! I smoked camels until I quit about 6 months ago. Turkish jade silvers were my fave.

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thedangerousfugu@reddit

He's on disability with a hole in his neck.

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Aught_To@reddit

As a teen I used to collect camel cash from the trash or whatever. Got A sweet Joe camel zippo

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generic__comments@reddit

I got the same Zippo and I still have it and the can it came in. I quit smoking 20 yrs ago so I don't get to use it.

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JeffTS@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/7rvmu4j1n0fg1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7a50c22bfe6acfaa69e6cc471f47e5524cc5fa1

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spicysatisfaction@reddit

Thats awesome!

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Aught_To@reddit

Oh man that is super sweet. Love the color

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CeruleanCrabbie@reddit

Holy shit, fucking love the vaporwave!!!

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gdj11@reddit

I was walking through a parking lot and saw an old beater car and there were like 200 camel bucks sitting in the center console. I was never a thief but for some reason I grabbed them. I’ve felt absolutely horrible about doing that for the past 30+ years and I wish I could say sorry and repay that person.

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CashCollateral@reddit

Haha, same. I just posted about my camel zippo!

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Burlington-bloke@reddit

I don't remember Camel cigarettes being available in Canada. My mum likes "Player's light" and would often send me to the store with a note "allowing" me to buy them. Dad preferred Dunhill "Dunnies" but they were much more expensive so he usually bought Players. Both grandmothers like Cameo cigarettes, I loved the smell of Cameos! In high school I used to pretend to smoke. I never once inhaled, it was still cool to smoke in the 90s. I stole them from my parents who totally knew but didn't care.

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SpoonFullOfSugar1111@reddit

"Joseph Camelton... moose knuckle inspector"

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Puzzleheaded_Bad6461@reddit

He could definitely be a stuntcock for streaming series that are too chickenshit to hang real dong

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Kalena426@reddit

Joe

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Sidetrackbob@reddit

Real estate agent.

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Lloydz2014@reddit

Camel Lights were my brand for years

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No_Cartoonist981@reddit

My first smokes when I was trying to be cool and edgy

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JeerzQD@reddit

His mouth looks like a ball sack

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WayneS1980@reddit

There’s a Punk Band that had a song called “Touch my Joe Camel” and the album cover had a naked male body with Joe Camels face where his groin would be.

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aspect-of-the-badger@reddit

I used to smoke Camel Turkish blend to be different. Joe camel was his name if I remember correctly.

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grandma-activities@reddit

Friend of mine switched to the Turkish blend after she green-card married a guy from Turkey. A few years later, he went home to visit family and died in an earthquake, and for awhile she got weepy every time she saw Camels.

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vitoforever99@reddit

I didn’t know Jay Z could play the piano

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kurtstoys@reddit

I still have about 100 camel cash... and the infinitely less important marlboro miles

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tkecanuck341@reddit

The 1 cigarette I smoked in my life was a Camel Light Red.

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Forward_Damage4779@reddit

My man Joe.

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BBWDLLUVER@reddit

Joe camel. Today he's on oxygen

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Shakarix@reddit

In my neighborhood he was called Joseph Camelstein

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fubo@reddit

Yeah, he's a dickface.

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johnvalley86@reddit

I had a Joe Cool puppet around 25 years ago. Had a leather jacket and velcro cigarette to put in his mouth. Had it in a storage container in my parents basement and lost him in a flood. Still bummed about that.

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Beautiful_Leader1902@reddit

Heck I remember when lucky strikes got filter 2 packs for 75 cents

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spacedwarf2020@reddit

How I miss my camel wide lights and camel Turkish golds.... One claim I always make if I could choose magically for one thing to not effect my health (zero consequences to doing) I'd choose smoking cigarettes again lol. Quit almost 13 years ago and still miss it everyday lol.

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Treadingresin@reddit

That add campaign hit me square in the rebel teen heart. I didn't even like smoking, but whipping out a pack of camel wides meant I was a tough chic. Not some Virginia slims p*ssy. Yes I know, young me was a pain in the poser ass.

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chucktown80tiger02@reddit

Joe! I’ll never forget Dennis Miller’s show with Norm McDonald. He said Joe Camel looked like a c*ck and b*||s. Hilarious

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_Face@reddit

You can say cock and balls on Reddit.

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chucktown80tiger02@reddit

I know, but this sub is more family friendly. I was trying to keep it cleaner

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_Face@reddit

Is it? Aren’t we all battle hardened badasses?

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BehavioralSink@reddit

“Usually it’s subliminal, like you have to find the cock… This character… You have to find the goddamn camel!”

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chucktown80tiger02@reddit

I didn’t notice it at first. After that, couldn’t UNsee it

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dkoehn78@reddit

First thing that popped in my head.

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Turbulent_Tart_8801@reddit

The secondhand smoke from the unfiltereds was nasty.

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wmubronco03@reddit

I kept him with me on a daily basis for about 20 years. I still think about him every now and then.

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timara69@reddit

Whata smooth character... I remember Camel Cash...

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aetrix@reddit

Pretty sure in my mother's house there's still a wad of my old man's camel cash wrapped in a rubber band haunting a drawer somewhere. He's been dead since 2013.

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

I remember they used to run ads with him in magazines until parents complained

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TelevisionUnusual372@reddit

![gif](giphy|Hwt9GttAEeq5i|downsized)

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MainNormal5570@reddit

I used him as a reference for a tattoo and the young artist looked at me quizzically

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DestroyerTame@reddit

Do I know this guy? Brother, half of my retirement savings is in Camel Cash.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I never tried cigarettes, but I always thought this guy could be reformed.

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GenderOobleck@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/4p3lou36s1fg1.jpeg?width=664&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bae48e32305f3f42e7fc18784109015889e8aba8

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instant_ramen_chef@reddit

That's Jay-Z

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SonSuko@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/lqdiinoki1fg1.jpeg?width=907&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b50e1c56f0fe187893205df0e8dee5a3a050928 Used to cop these offa him

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iwantmy-2dollars@reddit

Cartoons made me start smoking!!!! It definitely wasn’t simple rebellion.

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Sad_Subject_5293@reddit

Yes and I broke up with him 7 years ago thank god

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Ill-Complaint-6634@reddit

![gif](giphy|X4Jvo8gslR6A8)

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ChipC33@reddit

Thank you

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SituationSmart1853@reddit

Absolute cinema.

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Upset-Word151@reddit

He and I were best buds for over 20 years, unfortunately

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PlatypusDependent271@reddit

Smokin' Joe of course

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Crans10@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/61u3qt1pz0fg1.png?width=714&format=png&auto=webp&s=372739e2482f252652d1e63f21f3bd1a47ac8a78

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TheLastBoat@reddit

[Joe Camel looks like a cock.](https://youtu.be/9M6xiDB_TOs?si=UpYd5zJ-7big17oX)

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memberer@reddit

the upside down penis face. lol

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Dazzling-Jump-1334@reddit

Soft pack camel filters or Turkish royals😎

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impliedapathy@reddit

My dad saved enough cash to buy a dartboard and a poker set. Pretty decent quality on both considering.

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se-dc@reddit

We got a kickass two-person Salem raft “earned” by my heavy-smoking aunt. That double innertube was premium quality. A silver lining haha

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kg63amg@reddit

Beyoncé’s Husband.

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drd-domino@reddit

![gif](giphy|qIXVd1RoKGqlO)

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Dog_Baseball@reddit

I had about a billion camel cash and then they ended the program. I was so pissed

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ElvisAaron@reddit

Smooth Character aka Smooth Dicknballs

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Plastic-Sentence9429@reddit

Ol' penis face?

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ThanosWasRightAnyway@reddit

Man used to cost under $1.50 when I spent time with him

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EatLard@reddit

My granddad quit smoking cold turkey when the price of a pack of cigs went up to 25¢.

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Lucky_Louch@reddit

Pussylipface Mcgee? yeah I know him.

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Rich_Celebration477@reddit

We were well acquainted for quite some time me meet. Last time I visited with him I threw up in a parking lot.

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p8nt_junkie@reddit

Hey Joe, where’s my cash?

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Snugglebunny1983@reddit

Yep. My grandparents always smoked Camels and saved the Camel cash. I got quite a bit of merchandise from Camel as a little kid.

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jaxsonMiss@reddit

Never once smoked one but his ads live rent free in my mind. My absolute favorite was a Christmas themed one with Joe dressed up as Santa and begrudgingly mumbling something like "Merry this or Merry that."

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BehavioralSink@reddit

First job ever was for a local mom and pop mini-mart. We sold cigarettes, and I’d often get sent home with some random promotional gear. I had a Camel Joe t-shirt which was my go-to snowboarding t-shirt for years.

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amodsr@reddit

I used to love Joe Camel as a kid. Never wanted to smoke though. Smoking is bad for you.

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CashCollateral@reddit

My dad smoked Camels at the time and he let me save up all of his Camel Cash. After many, many months, I finally saved enough to get the Camel Zippo lighter. Of course, no one had a problem with giving a 13 year old a Zippo lighter back then!

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