Meet Joe Camel: The Cartoon that Tricked Kids to Smoke
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Joe Camel is infamously known for tricking kids into smoking cigarettes, but how did it happen? What is the story behind this innocent-looking cartoon camel? Today I’m going to be deep-diving into the entire story of Joe Camel, the cartoon mascot Camel cigarettes employed in the 1980s that promoted underage smoking. This one simple marketing campaign has quite the bizarre history to it…
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Whats the business model of big tobacco as well as their revenue model like malboro and camel
Do your research and use a few of your own brain cells next time. Anyone who was a kid through this knows that the caricature was intentionally and effectively off-putting to kids. Captain Morgan on the other hand was blatant child bait; and kids stuck with Marlboro Reds. Phillip Morris execs found Joe appealing and therefore a threat; hence the nonsense lobbying.
Maybe formulate an actual thought for your next video.
Why do cigarettes 🚬 even exist!?
Why is it "culturally appropriate" to push transgender stuff on kids in school? Is it because it helps the governme elite get elected?
Mad magazine poked fun at this years
Ago.
The doctor showed joe his x-rays and
He freaked out.😂
What tricked me into picking up smoking was my mom blowing smoke in my face as a kid and telling me it only drifts towards beautiful people. She was somehow shocked and angry when she discovered that I had become addicted.
Ur mom' fault literally.
Just, i dont blame ur mom to be like crappy parenting
But thats actually really darn crazy
What stupid parenting. I hope you've moved on from your addiction and your mother as well.
Are you okay now
I got cigarette smoke in my face all the time as a kid but it just made me want to vomit and I never became addicted.
@UA-cam WantsToSilenceMe ur right u should castrate yourself for added difficulty
I don’t know why we attack cigarette ads as targeting an impressionable audience but we’re still allowed to run reverse mortgage and Medicare scam commercials to target old people
Also companies like Mcdonalds and Coca Cola marketing fast food and soda to young American kids on cartoon channels in the midst of a national obesity epidemic.
i love you
I love how cigarettes are widely allowed but the moment one of their ads does well people realize how dangerous they are and ban their ads instead of the cigarettes
@@he3004 banning cigarettes would be really dumb
@@Badminkey7 Why?
Its funny how history repeated itself with JUUL. Especially considering that as a highschool student, I see far to many students who do vape. Its barely considered taboo anymore.
Apples to oranges kid. Juul doesnt market towards kids. The only reason kids use it is because the device itself is small and convenient. Which can hardly be considered as marketing towards children
@@angryburnttoast Did you see why JUUL was banned? They were definitely marketing towards children bro
I actually have this 18 year old kid at my work who has been vaping for some time. the only reason why he is vaping is because he is rebellious to his parents. he also does weed for the same reason. nobody in the workplace really shames on him for smoking and vaping.
he has had to stop though because of his parents constant screening for nicotine and THC.
@@le9038 I never understood that mindset, like why literally damage your body because your parents said "no don't do that, you'll kill yourself"
"Mf's flex their vapes, but in the future I'm going to flex my lungs"
It's awful that they targeted kids but, You've got to admit, Joe Camel looks pretty cool.
The way his puppy dog eyes say "Hey buddy, don't you wanna just relax and have a smoke?" would almost make you feel guilty for saying no.
Whoever designed Joe Camel is/was a devious bastard.
Hard pictures
💀💀💀
That’s kinda the whole point of Joe Camel. The purpose of him was to look cool and appeal to children.
As a 14-18 year old, this is a very appealing look for Joe Camel, and I _must_ convince my father and/or mother to purchase Camel brand cigarettes.
4:53 Imagine trying to take yourself seriously while claiming inflatable mattresses & lunchboxes with a cartoon mascot are aimed at adults rather than children/adolescents
right??? crazy stuff
My dad owned like 3 joe camel shirts he got just for being such a loyal customer. My mom made him throw them all out when she met him lol Shoulda kept em, they'd sell good on ebay probably.
They also put all sorts of other mascots and characters that are also aimed at adults on lunchboxes and other items made for children. They had terminator lunchboxes even though the terminator movies were rated R. Same with Predator and Aliens. There are numerous examples out there. Sure, you can blame smoking on a cartoon character, but you'd be wrong. I swear "top comments" consist of people with very cold IQs.
@@shamancredible8632 Are you suggesting those lunchboxes didn't get kids in theater seats? This is the exact same situation - a product intended primarily for adults is marketed to kids to make more money. It's just less sinister in the case of R-rated movies because they aren't objectively harmful or illegal for children to consume (if accompanied by an adult).
@@shamancredible8632 there was a high number of children in the terminator, robocop and alien's fanbase wich led to some of them to even have cartoons and games aimed towards kids, Deadpool and mortal kombat is another example of content amied towards adults that kids watch
When I worked at Circle K I had a regular customer who was still mad they got rid of Joe Camel.
"He was so cool, I loved Joe Camel, he was the whole reason I started smoking as a kid" They would often say, completely oblivious that that was the whole reason Joe was done away with
You should've been like: "ma'am there's other customers in line could you please take your receipt and go?"
The dialogue seems like something out of a satire lol
@gxshygxrl18 it's not, and it wasn't back then either
@gxshygxrl18 Used to be way back in the day, in the 19th century I think.
Should’ve said that instead of commenting about it
My dad was a huge smoker of Camel and we had a LARGE chunk of the stuff listed shown in 4:52. I knew cigarettes' were bad and still never had a cig till this day, but I always liked Joe Camel's design. It's nostalgic in some of the worst ways. Luckily one massive stomach ulcer later and my dad went cold turkey and didn't touch anything till the day he peaced from life. (30 years cold turkey)
That's incredible thank you for sharing
That’s interesting…
My mom smoked for 12 years and quit before she gave birth to me. We had and still have a lot of these things such as ash trays, vintage luggage bags, tin posters, trays, beer cozies ect. Ive honestly always been a fan of Joe camel and wish he was still a thing.
Cold turkey? What?
@@RandomPerson-hd6wr it means he quit smoking
In an alternate universe Joe Camel would have gotten his own Saturday Morning Cartoon right after G.I. Joe and just before Transformers or He-man.
The Flintstones were used in cigarette commercials. Long before my time, but I've seen them.
@@cujoedaman Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
@@cujoedaman The Flinstones, or at least their earlier cartoons, were always geared towards an adult audience; similar to how "Family Guy" is now. That's why the Flinstones got away with it in their earlier years. But as you notice when the audience for the flinstones became younger and younger, they scaled back on that stuff as time went on.
@@thewolfofwallstreet627 I still find it so out of place because it's the Flintstones advertising a modern day item :D
The Adventures of Bud Man and Joe Camel?
This is the kind of quality content that makes someone famous. Keep at it, and don't change how you present! Love the video, but not how it was marketed towards kids.
Much appreciated Mad!! RJ Reynolds are a bunch of scumbags...
@@bcproductionvideos you really are great at presenting
@@bcproductionvideos as someone who actually lived through this, Joe Camel was targeted at the bar crowd by portraying him in one, not kids who found bars to be boring and otherwise off-putting adult hangouts.
If you don't want to look like a hack riding the coattails of yesteryear's idiot hysteria, maybe investigate the cartoon pirate that actually drew kids to drink rum or the competitors that likely funded this 90s nonsense so their Phillip Morris Marlboro Reds would remain the kid favorite. It's like Mossberg pushing anti semiautomatic laws so they can sell shotguns. Use a brain cell or two, or end your idiot content.
@Acceleration Quanta agreed. It's just like pregnancy. They gotta start sometime
This isn’t related to the video, but I just have to say that I adore your name.
My grandpa had a life-sized Joe the Camel plushie. This guy apparently had a chokehold on the American public.
Bro life sized??
@@aaronmoralesjr1875 I mean it was big enough to sit next to you in a chair so I’m gonna assume it was lol, haven’t seen it in years though so idk what happened to it
He's selling cigarettes, but he looks like a cereal mascot.
lol
Probably healthier than most of the cereals that actually have a mascot, LOL
Let's make Joe Camel a cereal mascot
And now in some countries they removed cereal mascots from the packaging, since various organizations say they attract children to an unhealthy food
@@pablocasas5906the astronaut dude in star cereal lol
As a youngster in the 80's and 90's, I loved Joe Camel. I even had magazine ads taped to my bedroom walls. My parents never saw that as a red flag 😆
Do you smoke, or ever tried? Just curious.
@@TruFalco I tried smoking in Middle School, tried it again in college, became a regular smoker in my late twenties, early thirties. These days I only smoke cigars. Once in a very long while I will also chew RedMan.
I bet cigarette companies back then would be pissed that all it takes is making it taste like candy
yeah, especially since now there are cigarettes without tobacco that taste like chocolate and vanilla.
@Josie cigarettes I think but definitely not cigars and cigarillos, whatever the difference is
There's a difference?
@@user-uo8ny1kj4cmany of those are prop cigarettes for movies and actors that don’t smoke
A cartoon isnt the reason me or any of my friends started smoking. We all started because our parents smoked... same reason we stole there beers n whiskey..
Peer pressure for when I was a teen in the mid to late 90s
True.
Yeah. Parents, loved ones, or peer pressure were the reason that everyone that I've known got into drinking or smoking.
Thanks for this, I remember my uncle buying me some of those candy cigars and never thinking much of it (5y or 6y) and yet the first cigar I ever smoked at the early age of 11 was Camel, this explains so much and just brings me more joy to see this was long time banned.
Also amazingly well put together your videos, just watched Marlboro before this one and to my surprise so little views/subs, keep it up, you'll soon be recognized ;)
My pleasure!! Appreciate the love
Bro y’all saying new kids be dumb, look at the 90’s kids
@@theslimegamer5451 Didn't this generation have a challenge to choke yourself with a belt?
@@cl0ckw0rkna9 hold on they did WHAT
@@theslimegamer5451 kids are dumb, always have been always will be, people just have to deal with that
In brazil there is a beer brand called brahma, and for some time, they had some ads about a tortoise playing football with a beer can, or fooling the truck driver, by stealing the truck, and so on. Because of that, they done a law that prohibited the use of cartoon or animated characters to promote adult products
I didn't realize this video has been made by a channel with only 1.7k subscribers. The editing, narration, and confidence make me think it is made by a channel well over 1 million subscribers.
Woah! Thats a huge compliment thank you!
There is a reason this channel has low subscriptions.
I grew up in Germany. My grandfather was into playing Lotto. So, every week, when my parents took my grandparents grocery shopping (neither one of my grandparents had a driver's license) I stuck with my grandfather, who went to a dodgy lottery shop with a spotted, dark green carpet. The walls were plastered with Camel posters. Bottom to top, nothing but Joe Camel posters. Yet the one that always got my attention was the one next to the cigarettes, right behind the counter. The OG Camel logo, with the palm tree and the pyramid. I, to this day, love everything about this logo. The classic feel. The sense of adventure. The feeling of entering an exotic world, forever trapped in a 1920s-esque Egypt. My four-year old, archeology and paleontology books fuelled mind went nuts for this logo.
I smoked for a while. Mostly pipes and cigars. Cigarettes never did it for me. The tobacco never tasted right. But I never became a full on smoker. Haven't smoked one in 2 years.
It's good that Poland had banned cigarette ads almost as soon as it became a free country. The ban is in effect to this day and even there are plans to extend it to e-cigs (which are still technically legal to run ads for, although many ad places in Poland, from TV stations to magazines will refuse to run these ads on moral grounds).
I remember Joe Camel, but I started smoking by getting rides to school with a senior who smoked. He smoked everyday in his car on the way to school. At first, I hated the smell, but I still preferred rides over the bus. Eventually, the 2nd hand smoke started to smell good and that's when I got older kids to start buying me packs. I also came to think it looked cool after I started smoking when I realized how many cool characters in movies smoked
Hope you like lung cancer.
God I wish I was that camel.
Okay vaping cat.
@@pepperbytez8128 he so cool dude
Hash tag me too
Have you learned *NOTHING* /j
im not even gonna lie, i would love an adult swim show of joe camel and his friends just being douchebags.
that sounds sweet
You mean Bojack Horseman?
Go watch Bojack
“Hey kids, like gambling and cigarettes?”
Love your content my man, keep up the great work. Fun fact about tobacco, historians believe that the sale of tobacco from different merchants in the 1700's made modern branding to what it is now. So in a way, different brands out marketing each other is just continuing the tradition.
Oh wow! how cool. I would've never thought that branding in general has quite the history to it. Thanks for the kind words also!
Tobacco smoking has been around for centuries. Almost like alcohol consumption.
“Kids don’t smoke because a camel in sunglasses told them to” - George Carlin
Nice joke.
Indeed
I truly believe this idea didn’t really die, but rather evolved and right when the tobacco was about to die. Julu and vapes became mainstream and really popularized in the youth market. Just my opinion tho😅😓
100% agree. It's like the tobacco advertising cycle has restarted to the beginning lol
No they don't lol. Adults like candy flavored stuff too. And teenagers are gonna use nicotine regardless, I'd rather them vaping than smoking camels. While we don't know how harmful vaping is yet, the best evidence we have points to it not being as harmful as cigarettes.
@@texanarchy666 Nicotine is harmful, gives addiction. The nicotine's quantity in stick/in a vaping device is usually higher than that there is in a common cigarette, being more damaging to the heart and with additional potential damages from chemical flavors. Vapor is less harmful than smoke but it's still harmful. It would've been better if men never knew this drug.
@@texanarchy666Vaping reduced most unpleasant parameters but not the harm from nicotine. IMO cigarettes give a smoker some kind of discipline. Cigarette smoke has bad taste and smell, it's very hot so that it can burn a smoker's throat and lungs, smoking cigarettes is related to using open fire so it requires finding a special place and spending some time to smoke the whole dose of sauced tobacco waste wrapped in a piece of paper presoaked in nitrates. Vaping devices instead offer candy and fruit flavoured liquids that "sort of" are not that unpleasant. Vapers also don't need to smoke the whole cigarette, they just take a couple of drags instantly. With instant access to nicotine and all unpleasant factors removed vapers consume MOAR and MOAR of nicotine than regular smokers and they'll never get enough. The worst thing about this less-harm-BS is that vapers don't even think that someone around may not like it. They fill the whole damn space around them with their urinal-odorant-flavoured vapor and DGAF that people around don't want to breathe it in. I'm allready tired making remarks to all those teenagers vaping inside public transport. The whole vape and HNB industry is made to stop smokers quitting and also to make non-smokers smoke. We may have heard how early feminists were fighting to let women smoke. Now what I see is alcohol, vape and HNB industry targeting especially women and children by using colourful pics and bright attractive design. A vaping device can be shaped like a cool gadget or like a kids' toy for example. But men are also targeted. The sole reason of tobacco companies agressively promoting HNB and vapes was a serious decline in regular cigarettes popularity. I remember, when IQOS appeared, their agents in malls would offer this crap to every person passing by. I remember how several times they tried to offer it to me (a male non-smoker). I see my friend "trying to quit smoking" by switching to IQOS (and I'm sure he won't quit in such a way).
So IMO there are several rules:
1. If you don't want to smoke don't try it at all. DO NOT VAPE.
2. If you want to quit smoking, quit completely. DO NOT VAPE.
3. If you still want to smoke, smoke for real. DO NOT VAPE.
Just don't submit to "less harm" lies. Nicotine is harmful by itself. It damages your vessels, heart, brain and the rest of the body. There is no harmless way to consume nicotine.
As a non-smoker I would rather prefer a legal ban on vaping and HNB products than a legal ban on regular cigarettes. Cigarettes were already declining until vapes refreshed the industry.
@@texanarchy666bro I’m 15 and nearly every kid in school vapes from grade f'cking 7 (some start in primary school in grade 6) the youth vaping problem is terrible and sure SOME kids used to smoke but not half or even a third of as many as kids who vape
This video is incredibly well made, I was shocked when I saw you only have 1k subs.
Thank you!!! Thanks for checking out the vid!
Why are you shocked? No one cares about this misinformation nonsense.
As someone who was actually a kid during all of this, I can testify that this was not appealing to kids. They always had him in places such as bars that to a kid were unnecessarily noisy and boring; whether for some reason you're getting dinner in a bar or just around adults who are acting like they're in a bar. Nothing about Joe Camel appealed to kids.
On the flip side, I always found that swarthy pirate Captain Morgan to be appealing as a kid. He's not the reason that it was the first rum that I tried though; my neighbor already had the bottle open; but nonetheless, that's the rum that all of the kids drank with their Marlboro Reds.
That's only your personal experience with the brand, the data in the video makes it clear that it was atleast recognizable by most kids. And regardless of whether it actually was appealing or not, that was still the company's intention, which is awful regardless.
@@mell7249 some propaganda video telling me lies or weak opinions at best contrary to what I lived through and a third party source for intentions isn't going to sway me; that's someone putting words in someone else's mouth. That leftist nonsense is part of what killed the US; nobody with a brain is buying it.
I agree. These ads were geared towards adults not kids. The "data" is false.
@@jimkeskey yeah and movies like predator, terminator, robocop, rambo, etc were also R rates, gory and crude action movies geared towards adults, but guess who got toys and videogames made for them? adults of the 80s and 90s aren't buying those
@@luka9967 Science fiction my friend
Now that you mentioned it, you could talk about Marlboro's marketing strategy, and how they were so successful. Marlboro's are top of the board to this day, they make quality cigarettes
I already did! I made a video about the Marlboro Man and how he sprung Marlboro into popularity and made them #1
@@bcproductionvideos Oh yeah, you did. Thanks
@@Eire_Aontaithe no prob!
Mas olha, outro gaúcho por aqui xD
A publicidade do Marlboro foi talvez o fator mais importante pra manter a geração dos nossos pais fumando. Bem na época que os cigarros de palha caseiros, com fumo de corda, estavam saindo de moda como coisa dos velhos, a Marlboro fez os jovens se interessarem pelos cigarros industriais, mesmo sendo mais caros. Como publicidade, foi uma ação genial deles
Cartoon Joe Camel came out when I was 14. They had countertop displays that were rife for shoplifting (i think on purpose) so we did. I had tons of "Camel Cash", little camel faced dollar bills that allowed you to buy stuff. I had a Camel jacket, ashtray, shirts, lighters, etc. It worked on me big time.
This makes me feel old to remember seeing Joe in magazines.
Would love to hear more about marketing to kids that backfired or other dangerous marketing in general as a video idea!😊
I love those stories too! I had a blast making this one. Definetly expect more to come :)
Look up Bloodvertising.
As a child of the 90s I remember smoking in malls and other public places and I remember Joe camel was a badass.
My dad owned 3 joe camel shirts that my mom made him throw out when she met him. I bet those shirts would sell good on ebay today.
It's kind of funny, I loved Joe Camel as a kid. It never got me smoking as I didn't start until I was 18 but it is funny that Camel is my favorite cigarette.
I feel bad for you.
I don't know if it was intentional, but the Joe Camel wearing a tuxedo reminded me of Sean Connery's James Bond as an anthropomorphic camel.
Those Joe Camel ads were self aware, adult male facing, tounge-in-cheek avan-guard marketing. No reasonable person thought them to be targeting children. Another example that Dads matter.
D.A.R.E drove me to smoke. Idk how a an overgrown desert lama "tricked" others into getting their nicotine fix
I feel sorry for uou
wow I can't believe children would pay attention to a cartoon character they see in advertisements! truly a revolutionary study. I especially love how it doesn't confirm at all that the kids who recognize the cartoon character were even buying the cigarettes at all.
I'm glad someone else noticed how "nothing" this "research study" was
@@goo_dragon its all the same brand of pointless boomer outrage as the video-game violence scandals of the 90s. a whole lot of nothing.
@@stproducciones9140ot even vaguely comparable.
If you genuinely think it was a good and harmless idea that cigarettes using marketing designed to attract kids then you are utterly clueless. Smoking kills and anything to neuter it’s marketing is for the public benefit.
@@TheBroz im not even arguing about the cigarettes themselves. just that the study about children who recognize the character has a flawed premise. just because elementary school choldren know the character, doesn't automatically mean they're gonna smoke cigarettes. maybe that happened but that study has no way of discerning anything conclusive other than "kids know a cartoon character from commercials"
when I was a young kid, there was always a different joe camel ad on the billboard near my house. It seemed to change every few weeks or month, and my brother and I would always be excited to see what the next billboard was. It was almost like a story. Needless to say, I grew up and one day smoked Camels. Could just be a coincidence, I just liked the taste of camels, but it is kind of funny.
On my routes, Camel and Newport must have bought most of the roadway billboards. Funny thing about cigarettes was that they were banned from television in 1971, but they still had these monster advertising budgets, so they just threw money around at every medium except TV and radio.
Damn is this the original UA-cam video? This is really well produced wish ppl like this had more exposure on UA-cam 💯💯
It is the original!! TYSM for the nice comment
As a Winston-Salem, North Carolina native, the home of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Joe Camel Memorabilia was everywhere. R.J. Reynolds was one of the biggest industries in the town for many years, so getting to learn more about the scummy marketing tactics the company used is... pretty frightening to say the least. Although I have consciously chosen to steer away from smoking, I can imagine the impact Joe had in his prime was pretty severe. Excellent video, BTW.
even though it seems crazy to think about tobacco companies trying to advertize and get kids to start addictive habbits, Its not much different than the fast food industry today sadly. Fast food is addictive, adverized to kids and unhealthy just like cigarettes were. Once the whole cigarette taboo disapeared in the 80s-90s, i guess companies jumped the wagon on fast food. Right around the 90s is when fast food started to become more popular with kid commercials and the whole supersize sizing from mcdonalds. weird coincidence? maybe lol
woah..... that makes too much sense to be a coincidence! JUUL also ws under fire for a while for advertising vaping to kids. Seems like these big companies move from one addiction to the next hahaha. Could be a good idea to cover in a future video! Thanks for the idea :)
@@bcproductionvideos for sure! i wouldnt be suprised at all. Whatever makes the money for them. Even marijuana is like that too. These dispensaries opening with all these catchy names for strains and products and all the weed snacks and catchy packaging, drive through dispensaries etc. There is A TON of potential money in that market for sure and they probably try to find ways to market to the younger generation. Those companies must know that people of age purchase their products in legal states and sell them to young people all over the country.
You do a great job with these videos for real. Really keep it up and like everyone else has been saying, dont forget about me when you become famous! lol
I'd argue even Mickey Mouse/Disney is unhealthy for kids. The end goal is just creating lifetime adult and multi-generational consoomers.
@@chrisa7355 Fast food isn't addictive. People aren't willing to go mug each other or participate in petty theft just to scrounge up the change for a Big Mac meal, but they will for some oxycontin.
@@PURENT fast food is cheap and widely available; there's no need to mug someone for it lol
i was recomended by youtube of this video, after i finished it i thought you have like 1m or even 2m subs because of the quality of the video but no,
you are a pretty new channel and i was stunned to see you dont have even 1k, youtube dont do a good job of promoting you ):
keep up the good content you are making and believe me this channel going to explode and get very big (:
i hope you understanded my point here (:
(sorry for possible english mistakes i dont usually type in english)
i get your point hahaha. Thank you for the nice comment! I'm going to give it time and hopefully get bigger soon.
Joe Camel looks like the kind of guy who can smoke a cigarette in the rain, with two hands tied behind his back.
that nose is a natural canopy
this dude is so good unironically sent it to my friends and liked and subbed
Glad to hear you enjoyed!
I was an adult when Joe Camel appeared in the USA and at the time, he seemed to me to be aimed at grownups. All the scenes he was shown in were exclusively adult, so even if kids recognized him, he wasn't doing anything for kids.
I'm getting recommended many videos recently regarding the tobacco industry and since commercials for tobacco brands no longer air, It's a topic I know nothing about and quite interesting. It's also nice to know about the brands I consume daily, as people seem to be scared of talking aobut tobacco.
it is interesting stuff! I love covering these stories; I made one about Marlboro too
I remember the Joe Camel ads on gas pumps in the early 1990s.
How cool!
Damn this channel has ALOT of potential. Keep up the good content! (hope u dont become a clickbaiter lol)
I never will clickbait haha I don't wanna lose people's trust. I plan on always under-promising and over-delivering for every video. Thanks for the nice comment!
Just so glad I stopped smoking cigs, man was killing my breathing and God knows what else!
Good on you!!
A guy said he stopped smoking when he realized he was paying for his own gradual death. 💡
Watched two of your videos, great quality. You got a subscription from me.
Welcome aboard!
I hate to break it to you guys not all kids smoke because a camel wearing sunglasses told them to a lot of kids smoke for the same reason adults do it helps relieve anxiety-George carlin
@NexusWorks924 No use arguing with idiots, friend. They'll only bring you down to their unholy level.
Ah yes, nothing relieves anxiety like drug addiction.
To see someone with this many subscribers put out amazing content is unreal. I think to get out there you might want to try and work on videos with a bigger audience.
That's the plan! I want to cover topics that most people can relate to, so maybe more big brand stories? Not sure yet
@@bcproductionvideos Maybe cover some of the stuff nestle has done. pretty sure they have done some fd up things
@@NotCany interesting... I'll look into it
Please. Joe C. Never tricked me into smoking. Both my grandpa and mom smoked indoors around me. Hated the smell. I always just liked and admired the artwork of the camel ads.
I grew up in the '80s and early '90s, when Joe Camel was around. He never enticed me to smoke. I was a Christian - I had more sense than that.
I grew up the same time and never really saw the appeal of Joe. He was and still is, in my opinion, kind of an ugly character. The buzz haircut and big nose in particular. I think I tended to associate him with the smell of an old hotel room too. Maybe in a different cartoon style I could see a little more appeal, but most of those ads just kinda felt weird and off putting to me.
Huh, well, plenty of Christians smoke. I think that upbringing probably helped you develop the sense and morality to abstain, but I would put more joy into that noggin of yours, G-d gave it to you for a reason.
Cigarette ads are illegal, but the alcohol ads are still ok? Yeah, ok. Drink drink drink, party drink, have fun drink drink drink. Please drink responsibly.
and while you have a drink, why not throw some money down on a football game?
I don’t need to be “tricked” into smoking. I just need a few drinks and then once I catch a buzz it’s about 1-2 cigarettes per pint 😂 On those 20 pint nights the cigs have me feeling pretty damn haggard in the morning
I am 72 years old and I remember my childhood days when a lot of people smoked cigarettes. There was even candy that was shaped like cigarettes for children to eat. Also my grandparents on my mother's side of the family were both heavy cigarette smokers. My grandmother died from a stroke and my grandfather died from lung cancer. I am amazed that I am doing reasonably well, considering that over the years I was exposed to a lot of second hand cigarette smoke.
I'm glad to hear you're doing well! I thankfully never had to grow up with that around me... couldn't imagine what its like.
We also pretended to smoke the candy cigarettes before we ate them.
You gained a new sub! Great work man.
Awesome, thank you!
I don’t smoke, but I loved Joe Camel growing up. Hated when they stopped using him.
Meet Jay Z, the rapper that tricked kids into selling drugs 😂
What’d that have to do with the video
My Mom chain-smoked EVERYWHERE as I grew up(especially in the car) and i grew up HATEING cigarettes and HAVE NEVER SMOKED A CIGARETTE
Joe camel looks like a NFT lol
😂😂
I loved Joe Camel. Bought fishing lures and clothes I wasn't allowed to wear to school and everything. Never smoked a cigarette in my life. Hate em.
Joe Camel did a bad job of tricking people. Smoke breaks at first jobs started more people smoking than joe camel ever did.
Glad I discovered your channel. I like the quality of your videos and just subscribed ☺ Great Job!
Thank you!! 😊
Dude, you think we were stupid back then? That some cartoon camel would override all the adults telling us smoking was bad? That we had no agency? No, if we started smoking at an early age, it was because we wanted to, or was surrounded by people who did. I guarantee you a cartoon camel had little to nothing to do with it.
I know this might be a hard thing to understand coming from generations that will do some stupid/life threatening challenge because they saw it on TikTok, but it wasn't always like this.
It's like crackheads outbread all the non-crackheads and now our world is geared towards crack babies.
@@godrilla5549 True true.😂
Great presentation and very informative, be ready for this channel to get huge
Still waiting...
Here at 1.29k subscribers! Can't wait to come back and see you in the millions
Hope to see you back here ;)
I saw joe camel ads in a old magazine an immediately bought a pack of camel crush and red 99s. This happened like a year ago. He’s so fuckin cool dude I love joe camel
The camel did not get me to smoke camels as a kid. An old fun talking black man did, he just looked natural and cool with the filterless camel hanging from his lip.
I grew up at the height of the Joe Camel marketing scheme and have never smoked a cigarette in my entire life.
It's a choice. If cigarettes are illegal, they should be banned. If they're legal, they should be permitted to advertise.
Same with me. My brother however is a chain smoker.
@brendanjobe6895 Even as someone against smoking, I agree with you. I like cigarette ads as a kid simply because they were good ads to the point where my mom brought a magazine I got angry at for not having any ads. I always knew smoking was bad but the ads were great. Especially the ones with the giant Benson and Hedges doing things as human. Absolutely had no desire to smoke. People like me simply won't buy the product. Smokers will buy it regardless so. Otherwise shutting them down won't do shit
You just weren't cool😮💨
Funny, there was another campaign ran by cigarette companies (especially Marlboro) at about the same time where they would make pixie sticks that looked exactly like cigarettes which were then packaged in that company's genuine cigarette cartons (with ofcourse a tiny label indicating they were the candy.
but yeah, since they looked exactly like real cigarettes, you could pretend to smoke them and blow out pixie stick dust, people would absolutely flip seeing kids with them, but the ice cream man and candy stores had no problems selling the things.
Subscribed for whenever this channel makes it big in the future! Almost like an investment.
This channel shouldn't be this low on subscriber counts, and you don't need me to tell you how well put, and organized this video is like many others. Keep doing well my friend!
Thank you so much for the kind words!! Hopefully your investment pays off haha
@@bcproductionvideos if you keep at it on the channel, it will 👍
im your 1,080th sub. i already know you are going to become big soon. your scripting and editing is very well done
Nah Josephine definitely more than a ‘friend’ lmaooo
Yep, I have no idea why the uploader/narrator didn't call her Joe's Girlfriend. 🤔
thats a nice video! the information is just told in the way where i don't get bored, and video isnt 20 minutes long. can aswell listen to it while playing games
Sounds like a great time haha. That's what I go for when making these vids, I don't want you to get bored lol. Thanks for the comment!
I see the tiresome and fallacious habit of blaming inanimate objects--even cartoon characters--for the conscious actions of others persists. In reality-land, no one is tricked into smoking--they do so of their own volition, kids included.
b-b-b-b-BASED
I wouldn't be surprised if you reach 100k subs quickly, great job mate
Maybe one day! Thanks Kris :)
omg i thought this was a famous channel! keep up the good content, im so surprised you haven't blow up yet!! :D
Wow, thank you! Hopefully one day :)
Years ago, within my group of friends, we had this one guy we nicknamed 'Joe Camel' because of his striking resemblance to the character; the likeness was a spitting image.
Honestly, a cartoon character encouraging kids to pick up a cigarette is kinda like the least of anyone’s worries these days. RJ Reynolds marketing research is no different than any other big business out there to make money. Can’t blame someone for just playing the same game everyone is playing. But hey, at least Joe Camel made smoking fun.
Wow I nearly forgotten about Joe Camel. I remember seeing the ads everywhere when I was very young until they suddenly disappeared when I was 7-8.
It didn’t work for me because I never developed a tobacco addiction.
Remember mad magazine poking fun
At this in the madvertising book.
The doctor sent him his xrays he flipped
out.😂
Brilliant content mate 👌
Thanks Sam!!
Flex your vapes and cigs, but in the future I’ll be flexing my healthy no cancer lungs.
“At least my lungs are still pink.”
Well to be fair, Joe camel has swag so I don’t think it was that bad.
Idk if tobacco does
The German version looked even better.
I never smoked cigarettes, but I collected some of the advertisement things, like posters and business cards with my name.
I guess it’s the duty of the parents to make their kids resistant to advertisement.
It's always the same thing. We need to get rid of this or that because "no think of the children!!!" bitch how bout you raise your kids properly instead and tell em whats what, got damn
About Parents and kids smoking, someone said something like,"My Mother was a heavy smoker when I was a child. I thought smoking looked cool and I kept begging her to let me smoke too. Finally, she had enough and let me take a drag. That drag was one of the NASTIEST things I had ever had happen to me. I gagged and coughed. Mom told me,"I hope that horrible drag of a cigarette taught you a VERY valuable life lesson." It did and I never smoked again and never will."
And yet years after the ads were banned kids still continue to smoke. Almost seems like theres a minimal connection if any.
Joe taught me all i ever needed to know
In conclusion: cigarette companies are evil as fuck
pretty much lol
Always
As a 6 year old back then in the 90s, i was collecting the joe camel matches. The matches had the cool art. I used to collect them like baseball cards. my favorite was the one where he was on a motorbike, reminded me of the terminator. I highly doubt however i would want a Tshirt or a hat or some Joe Toy, i just liked collecting the matches. I remember being disappointed that there weren't any new camel joe arts on matches but i had no idea as a child that it was gone forever, otherwise i wouldn't have thrown away those pristine matches when i got bored of them later in life.
Joe Camel was brilliant. Smoking is cool.. smoking makes you look cool. Joe Camel is cool. He's everything a teenager wants to be.
ONG
Average 14 year old be like
I remember wanting some of that Camel merch as a kid lol
it's not a problem of cigarette companies reaching to children, it's a problem of parenting and education
Interesting Observation--- During the 1970's, I was an officer in the Huntington Beach jail--- We observed that anyone with Unfiltered Camel Cigarettes had done time in either state or federal prison.
I swear you would have had WAYYY more subs. I love this quality of video. You earned a sub
Welcome aboard!! Glad you enjoyed
Interesting how accurately they manage to depict the average “cool” person in school:
-smokes
-big mouth
-small brain
all this is reflected in Joe’s appearance
(I am sorry Joe)
this video makes me want a cigarette