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Doctors Enjoy Smoking Camels, in an Old Cigarette Ad

More doctors smoke Camels

A new Twitter follow led me to Lon­gart­sZ­wolle, a blog by a pul­mo­nologist in the Nether­lands. A Feb­ruary 1 post needs no translation:

More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette

The clip is said, on YouTube, to be a 1949 com­mercial for Camel cig­a­rettes. I tried to find more on this, first by clicking on the Camel website, spon­sored by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, but the virtual age filter check­points asked me for too much infor­mation, so I gave up.

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Note: Using Google trans­lator, I ini­tially found that lon­garts means “lung” in Dutch. Zwolle is a city north and east of Ams­terdam. But @longartszwolle clar­ified via Twitter: lon­garts means pul­mo­nologist. — updated by ES, 2/​​4/​​11, 9AM.

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