Joe DiMaggio smokes Camels

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Wim Lockefeer

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This ad for Camel cigarettes (which killed you 28% slower !) ran in US newspapers in 1942.

(thanks to the inimitable Merlin Haas for this scan)

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  3. Dawson Mitchell says:
    February 8, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    WOW! You would never imagine a sports figure promoting cigarettes nowadays.

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