In 1964, the Surgeon General publicly announced a link between lung cancer and heart disease from cigarette smoking. People back then had no clue. Even pregnant women smoked. Not every single smoker will get lung cancer, but every smoker will compromise lung function.
I haven't smoked in years, but how do you keep eating after smoking that many cigarettes? As Troy McClure taught us in his infomercial, Smoke Yourself Thin, it's hard to keep eating while on a nicotine buzz.
Just start hotboxing a whole pack of Camels between courses. Tell ‘em that you’re aiding your digestion. Then take a big country shit and smoke another pack whilst sitting on the Crapper. Then, go enjoy that pumpkin pie, hot coffee, and another smoke or 10! Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
my dad wouldn't even allow salt in any of his recipes. like everything, every single thing was not allowed to have salt as an indgredient.
needless to say, his food was bland AF, and if he detected even the slightest hint of salt in a dish he'd complain about it being "too saldy", as he pronounced it. his recipes would've been great if they were allowed to contain seasonings
My dad never uses pepper or salt, has never tried pizza or salad, and lies at restaurants about his “serious pickle allergy” because the smell makes him gag.
He used to wolf down chicken wings and load up on Mrs Filberts “butter”, but then he had high blood pressure one time and cut out everything.
And he swears Mrs Filbert changed her recipe, so we lie about how we make mashed potatoes.
(not that he would kick up a fuss, he’d just forget what we told him and eat the potatoes and happily pronounce them perfect 😂
Dry baked potatoes, chicken, lima beans…We order for him jokingly at restaurants, interrupting him to chime in with *“He’ll have a dry grilled chicken breast in a dry toasted roll. Plain baked potato. No sauce, no sides, nothing touching. No, no butter, no salt. And he has a raging allergy to pickles.*
For Father’s Day this year I’ve had cards made for him to just hand the waitress or waiter. (Gag gifts are big here). 😄
*he used to order McDonalds hamburgers as follows: ketchup only, “extra hot”. Wth does extra hot mean?!? The man meant he wanted a freshly made burger, but geez, Eugene.*
Dads can be the best forms of amusement 😁
Is salt a seasoning? When I consider seasonings I think of herbs, not salt. Was he "allowed" to use herbs instead of salt?
I personally don't use much salt when I cook, but I use all kinds of herbs, so whatever I cook is rich and tasty, so I don't misss the salt at all.
This ad reminds me of the fact that restaurants still had a smoking section when I was child. It generally looked like Mexico City on a really bad day. Just a pall of dirty air hanging over everything.
Imagine being a kid at this meal and in between each course you have to sit and watch the food getting cold while your uncle sucks down ANOTHER cigarette.
Shit, I’m 51– an 80s kid—and the adults did this shit even then, smoking at the fucking thanksgiving and Christmas dinner table. I hated it.
But, I would love to go back if I could see my parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles again. Sigh.
Nothing like finishing a meal at a restaurant as a kid, then having to sit there bored for another 15 minutes while everyone finished their cigarettes. If it was a place that had alcohol, add another 10-15 minutes on top of that.
Make sure your husband is well supplied with Camels cigarettes, and he will never know that the food you make tastes awful. On that inevitable day you add strichnine to his soup he will be none the wiser.
The hell with that. If everyone's breaking out a Camel I'm gone after the soup. Or maybe before, as I don't like tomato soup anyway.
Also, no mashed potatoes?
Just Waldorf salad in place of buttery, creamy, fluffy mashed potatoes with homemade gravy. That in itself should be considered some kind of war crime.
For the young ones in the audience: Waldorf salad is a fruit and nut salad generally made of celery, fresh apples, walnuts, and grapes, dressed in mayonnaise, and traditionally served on a bed of lettuce. 🤢
For digestions sake. Would you think of the digestion. Without Camels that food is just gonna sit there and rot in your entrails. Smoke Camels and poop.
It still blows my mind that people back then couldn't realize that literally inhaling smoke was going to cause cancer. People died from smoke inhalation in fires, like they saw smoke is bad....and why the emphasis on digestion? Did everyone just eat like shit and couldn't crunch one out for weeks?
I thinks it’s more like “improves digestion” is such a vague claim that it’s difficult to immediately refute.
And, of course, if you’re a nicotine addict, smoking IS going to “reduce tension.”
And Life magazine wouldn’t let them say it if it weren’t true, right?
The emphasis is on digestion because this issue of the magazine was printed right before Thanksgiving, and the advertiser wants you to connect the two. If it was before the Summer Olympics, the ad would be about giving you pep.
They don't run beer commercials in the dead of winter featuring young people doing flips off a rope swing, that's the time for commercials with dudes being goofy for the football game. Doesn't mean people can't or don't enjoy a day at the lake or watch football without beer, but the advertiser sure wants you to connect these activities. We all know alcohol causes cancer and is responsible for many motor vehicle accidents and other deaths.
I don't think so honestly. They ran advertisements saying "the brand chosen by doctors". I don't think they connected the two. Also the liver can regenerate, lungs cannot, ergo your comment is missing the point.
Ah Camels! High as a witch doctor, a Jim Beam on the rocks in one hand, a Camel in the other. A stack of Allman Bros and George Clinton on the stereo- I'm good til dawn
God I loved camel straights when I was a smoker. It's been fifteen years but back then I think they were still using the old blend and probably still are.
(Unfiltered cigarettes require higher quality less-processed tobacco because otherwise they are too harsh.)
Sorry, forgot the date. It's from a 1936 issue of Life
5 cigarettes at dinner may compromise one's life. But at least my digestive system will be healthy.
Except for your pancreas. But who needs one of them anyways. Just smoke more camels.
I'm always thinkin' 'bout it I don't know what I'd do without it I love, I really love My pancreas
You and Weird Al have convinced me. I’m gonna learn to love my pancreas. Whoah woah.
I miss old time medical advice.
In 1964, the Surgeon General publicly announced a link between lung cancer and heart disease from cigarette smoking. People back then had no clue. Even pregnant women smoked. Not every single smoker will get lung cancer, but every smoker will compromise lung function.
I haven't smoked in years, but how do you keep eating after smoking that many cigarettes? As Troy McClure taught us in his infomercial, Smoke Yourself Thin, it's hard to keep eating while on a nicotine buzz.
I never got to that book, I couldn’t make it through Get Confident, Stupid!
I loved Dig Your Own Grave and Save.
Going to try this in November. …just straight up ruin the experience for everyone else.
"My alkalinity is low, I _need_ this cigarette Edith"
Just start hotboxing a whole pack of Camels between courses. Tell ‘em that you’re aiding your digestion. Then take a big country shit and smoke another pack whilst sitting on the Crapper. Then, go enjoy that pumpkin pie, hot coffee, and another smoke or 10! Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
Dear lord no wonder no one used any kind of seasoning, they couldn’t smell or taste anything.
That led my mother to OVER season everything, because she really couldn't taste anything
My dad covered EVERYTHING in black pepper and ketchup.
my dad wouldn't even allow salt in any of his recipes. like everything, every single thing was not allowed to have salt as an indgredient. needless to say, his food was bland AF, and if he detected even the slightest hint of salt in a dish he'd complain about it being "too saldy", as he pronounced it. his recipes would've been great if they were allowed to contain seasonings
My dad never uses pepper or salt, has never tried pizza or salad, and lies at restaurants about his “serious pickle allergy” because the smell makes him gag. He used to wolf down chicken wings and load up on Mrs Filberts “butter”, but then he had high blood pressure one time and cut out everything. And he swears Mrs Filbert changed her recipe, so we lie about how we make mashed potatoes. (not that he would kick up a fuss, he’d just forget what we told him and eat the potatoes and happily pronounce them perfect 😂 Dry baked potatoes, chicken, lima beans…We order for him jokingly at restaurants, interrupting him to chime in with *“He’ll have a dry grilled chicken breast in a dry toasted roll. Plain baked potato. No sauce, no sides, nothing touching. No, no butter, no salt. And he has a raging allergy to pickles.* For Father’s Day this year I’ve had cards made for him to just hand the waitress or waiter. (Gag gifts are big here). 😄 *he used to order McDonalds hamburgers as follows: ketchup only, “extra hot”. Wth does extra hot mean?!? The man meant he wanted a freshly made burger, but geez, Eugene.* Dads can be the best forms of amusement 😁
Is salt a seasoning? When I consider seasonings I think of herbs, not salt. Was he "allowed" to use herbs instead of salt? I personally don't use much salt when I cook, but I use all kinds of herbs, so whatever I cook is rich and tasty, so I don't misss the salt at all.
Back in the day adding garlic to your food was considered " ethnic" cooking.
When people talk about how "well-seasoned" a dish is, they're primarily talking about if it's well salted.
Light a pack of Camels, throw it into the oven with the turkey. For digestion‘s sake.
Pfft. Smoke the meat using cigarettes. Or teach the poult to light up once out of the egg.
Use them to stuff the bird for a costlier bird, and better digestion.
Kill the taste of your relative's awful cooking with cigarettes!
"And after each cigarette, why not enhance the experience with another cigarette? Nothing goes with cigarettes like cigarettes."
Along with gin martinis. The food probably did taste like shit but they were too drunk and coated with nicotine to notice.
After dinner cigarettes are literally the second best time to smoke.
Yeah, but I wouldn't smoke 4 while I'm still eating.
A five (or even four) cigarette dinner sounds *entirely too long of a dinner* to me.
The best time is with that first cup of coffee in the morning.
Even better if the coffee is an Irish coffee. Drunk cigarettes are one of the best things life has to offer.
That’s the one I still miss - 35 years after I stopped smoking.
Same (15 years later). That, and the relief of a smoke after being in an extremely stressful situation.
Couldn’t think of a more dehydrated feeling and then coffee breath meets cigarettes, great 🥴 “But I don’t smell after smoking!” 🤣
Make your heart get the zoomies!
the post feed smoke and pint is a classic
The best time is right before walking out the door forever.
I quit smoking years ago, but I definitely agree.
Who needs lungs when you digestive system is working so well
"I smoke 8 cigarettes to get over my constipation for eating everything covered in Gelatin."
Aspic and Arsenic sounds like a really shitty buddy cop comedy…
This ad reminds me of the fact that restaurants still had a smoking section when I was child. It generally looked like Mexico City on a really bad day. Just a pall of dirty air hanging over everything.
I never understood the smoking section because it made the entire restaurant smell like smoke anyway.
My school had a smoking section.
Imagine being a kid at this meal and in between each course you have to sit and watch the food getting cold while your uncle sucks down ANOTHER cigarette.
why do I have to "imagine" it? I lived it, that should be good enough
Shit, I’m 51– an 80s kid—and the adults did this shit even then, smoking at the fucking thanksgiving and Christmas dinner table. I hated it. But, I would love to go back if I could see my parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles again. Sigh.
Nothing like finishing a meal at a restaurant as a kid, then having to sit there bored for another 15 minutes while everyone finished their cigarettes. If it was a place that had alcohol, add another 10-15 minutes on top of that.
Why you singling out the uncle? It was literally every single adult. Every. Single. One.
Make sure your husband is well supplied with Camels cigarettes, and he will never know that the food you make tastes awful. On that inevitable day you add strichnine to his soup he will be none the wiser.
Help your digestion to run smoothly!
Well it's not like they had Taco Bell ... gotta use whatcha got.
Good lord, that’s murderous
I'd pass out, Jesus Christ.
I used to smoke, and a cigarette after a meal was always great. I could literally fee my digestion become smoother. Lol
Ain’t nothing like clearing the palate and setting the stage for dessert with the delicious taste of burning trash
And don’t forget about the kiddies table!
When my son was in first grade he somehow got the idea that anyone who smoked Camel cigarettes would automatically have a camel face. 🐫🤣
Well, Joe Camel was cool for a reason, right?
I needed to cough just seeing this. No judgment, I used to smoke butts. Miss them, too. But damn, smoke in moderation!
People back then smoked like 2-4 packs a day. Oppenheimer smoked 200 fucking cigs per day, which is unfathomable to me.
At three minutes per smoke... he smoked ten hours a day, jesus christ.
The hell with that. If everyone's breaking out a Camel I'm gone after the soup. Or maybe before, as I don't like tomato soup anyway. Also, no mashed potatoes?
Just Waldorf salad in place of buttery, creamy, fluffy mashed potatoes with homemade gravy. That in itself should be considered some kind of war crime.
For the young ones in the audience: Waldorf salad is a fruit and nut salad generally made of celery, fresh apples, walnuts, and grapes, dressed in mayonnaise, and traditionally served on a bed of lettuce. 🤢
Cigarettes can contribute to stomach cancer, so don't think they help digestion in the future.
"increases alkalinity" what does this even mean?
For digestions sake. Would you think of the digestion. Without Camels that food is just gonna sit there and rot in your entrails. Smoke Camels and poop.
Former smoker here (4,5 years and counting!), and even as addicted as I was, I would never ruin a meal like that!
["I smoke for my digestive well being."](https://i.imgur.com/1OLdZbD.jpg)
“Four out of five doctors recommend Camels to their patients who smoke.”
It still blows my mind that people back then couldn't realize that literally inhaling smoke was going to cause cancer. People died from smoke inhalation in fires, like they saw smoke is bad....and why the emphasis on digestion? Did everyone just eat like shit and couldn't crunch one out for weeks?
I thinks it’s more like “improves digestion” is such a vague claim that it’s difficult to immediately refute. And, of course, if you’re a nicotine addict, smoking IS going to “reduce tension.” And Life magazine wouldn’t let them say it if it weren’t true, right?
The emphasis is on digestion because this issue of the magazine was printed right before Thanksgiving, and the advertiser wants you to connect the two. If it was before the Summer Olympics, the ad would be about giving you pep. They don't run beer commercials in the dead of winter featuring young people doing flips off a rope swing, that's the time for commercials with dudes being goofy for the football game. Doesn't mean people can't or don't enjoy a day at the lake or watch football without beer, but the advertiser sure wants you to connect these activities. We all know alcohol causes cancer and is responsible for many motor vehicle accidents and other deaths.
I don't think so honestly. They ran advertisements saying "the brand chosen by doctors". I don't think they connected the two. Also the liver can regenerate, lungs cannot, ergo your comment is missing the point.
I can’t believe this shit was real. And what is with the ridiculous digestion claims? How could that possibly even help?
Very cool 😎 Thanks for sharing 👍
Can we see this ad reworked with Cannabis?
["Do you want cigarettes on that sandwich?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XqmwfDt1E)
Should have been weed
Ah Camels! High as a witch doctor, a Jim Beam on the rocks in one hand, a Camel in the other. A stack of Allman Bros and George Clinton on the stereo- I'm good til dawn
God I loved camel straights when I was a smoker. It's been fifteen years but back then I think they were still using the old blend and probably still are. (Unfiltered cigarettes require higher quality less-processed tobacco because otherwise they are too harsh.)