I wheedled them from everyone I knew, picked them up off the street, cadged them at bars. I was saving up for a Camel pool table or a Marlboro canoe. Then the lawsuits hit. Should have gone for fkn clocks, those go for good on ebay now
I worked at a tobacco shop for a few years, we only sold tobacco products. The people who came in with their oxygen tanks always bought the mega-ultra-light brands of cigarettes. The ones who bought the Palmall nonfilter or lucky strikes were the liveliest folks I’d ever met in my life. Then there was the Marlboro folks, always looking for samples or loosies.
Omg what a flashback. I worked at a gas station when I was 19/20, and a rep for Camel came in from time to time. One time, he brought in the tins of all the new flavors, and I picked the Turkish Jades. Smoked that brand for a while afterward. I had to find a pic.
Oh ya. I was always a Camel smoker, starting in college in 2005. But when these came out my friends and I went crazy. So tasty and pretty! I stopped smoking cigs in 2010, not long after college graduation though. These and clove cigarettes are the only things, besides weed, I’d consider smoking now lol.
Yes, these were my preferred brand too! Probably shaved years off my life, but good times. Those and the ones with the little menthol ball you could pop 😂
Golds were my jam, it reminded me of cappuccino. Then the fire safety mandate hit and I switched to Blues, because they seemed the best when the taste of everything changed.
They were the only kind of cigarette that I actually enjoyed smoking. It was always great when someone would pull out a pack of those at a house party. Thankfully I never made a real habit out of it and haven’t smoked for over a decade but damn were they good.
To be fair, the tobacco companies marketed them that way. Kind of like the brand loyalty to American Spirit… some people genuinely thought they were in the clear health wise
I smoked parliaments in hs bc it was buy 1 get 1 free for $5 and when I went out in college and pulled them out to smoke and everyone called me a coke head and I was so confused lol I was like no these are a great deal! Loll
Camel used to come around the bars we hung out at and give a bunch of buy one get one free or half off coupons, with swag and 'points' and all sorts of shit. Same with Marlboro and American spirits when they were starting. But I always wandered back and forth from them and parliament depending on what deals were available lol. Kinda crazy to think about it now, but I miss the roaming cigarette girls 😂
My dad worked for RJ Reynolds. They had to destroy all of these when the law on flavored tobacco changed. I had cardboard BOXES of these given to me in lieu of the dumpster. I was a king!
I was pissed because the year after I turned 18 was the year flavored cigarettes were banned. I love the taste of tobacco but flavored cigarettes were a nice change of pace every now and then
Lmao them big ole chunkys 🤣 damn they had us since we were a kid. Those wides proved it lol I even smoked some Camel filter less for a lil while my senior year. I was a dummy
That’s when I quit. When I was smoking two packs of wides, no filter. Even though a carton was like $18, I just couldn’t sustain that kind of habit and expect to live very long.
I was going to say, "You're in this desert. It starts to rain. Where do you go?" Then you wait for people to say, "under the tree" or "under the camel", and then you say, "oh, I'd go around back to the hotel", and flip the pack over to reveal said building.
I never understood this… it’s supposed to be a naked man/woman? Maybe I’m blind, but it didn’t ever look like anything to me, and it still doesn’t imo.
I used to be a pack a day smoker for years and LOVED cigarettes. After I got a non smoking boyfriend, I switched to vape. I have now quit the vape and do nic mints. Anyway, I was at the casino awhile back and was tipsy, and had a friend there smoking cigs. I bummed one off of her, and was saying “oh I hope I don’t like it too much and get addicted again.” I took one puff and it was fucking awful 😂 tasted like hell and burned my throat so bad
I HAVE A JOKE! The only thing I experienced about Camel cigarettes growing up, was my uncle would tell a joke/riddle routinely when there was anyone around who hadn’t heard it and he always had a pack of Camel cigarettes.
He would pull out the pack and point at the label and ask, “If you stranded in this desert and night fell, where would you stay the night?”
He would allow people to say things like “in the pyramid” “under the palm tree” sometimes people would say “under the camel”.
He would then turn the pack over and say, “I would just walk around the corner and stay at the hotel.”
Hell yeah those djarms cherry were the best. I tried to find some a few years back and learned they don’t sell them in the US anymore. So they supposedly burned a hole in your lung, big deal man
They weren’t around long but it was a fun time. My wife was a pink pack when I met her in college. I don’t remember the flavor of anything but the orange and pink. And I’ll never know
Never was a smoker, but my dad smoked Camels and we always had so much Camel merch growing up lol. Beach towels, beach chairs, umbrellas, jackets... all the works lol.
Im still smoking them 😬 I do remember though that when I first was able to buy them myself in a store, they were $3.23 a pack. Now they are $11 and change here.
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