"Under a blue sky in a pastoral Eden, roosters hitch rides on floating tractors, speakers grow out of the ground and radios fly. This is in a world where the natural laws do not obtain, where cancer and serious health problems can cease to exist.
"For a product known to cause both, such a world is a potent sales device."
The colorful ad ran in a special anniversary issue of Rolling Stone in November 2007. At the time, Camel was using the Camel Farm promotion, including an elaborate Web site, to refer to raising rock bands up from underground.
But attorneys general in several states, including Washington, promptly filed suit over the ad. They contended it violated a multibillion-dollar nationwide settlement in 1998 in which tobacco companies agreed not to use cartoon characters like Joe Camel — a lovable-looking dromedary in cool clothes.
Mutha...Sell that shit to kids....
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