Life, 1919-12-18 · page 9 of 56
Life — December 18, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **Camel Cigarettes advertisement**, not satirical content. The page shows a large product display featuring Camel cigarette packages with the brand's iconic camel logo. The accompanying text promotes Camels as a premium blend of Turkish and domestic tobaccos, emphasizing their smooth flavor, lack of aftertaste, and superiority over other brands. The advertisement includes distribution information from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.). **For modern readers**: This represents an era when tobacco companies advertised openly in mainstream publications with health claims that would be illegal today. The casual promotion of cigarettes as a "revelation" and "delight" reflects pre-1960s attitudes before widespread awareness of smoking's health dangers.
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AMELS fascinating flavor and remarkable mellow-mild-body make them a cigarette revelation. Never before has such cigarette de- light been put before smokers! Camels are an expert blend of choice Turkish and choice Domestic tobaccos. Your personal taste will prove you prefer this Camel blend to either kind of tobacco smoked straight! Camels never tire your taste, no matter how liberally you are inclined to smoke. And, again, Camels are free from any unpleasant cigaretty aftertaste or any unpleasant cigaretty odor. In fact, Camels will so completely meet your ; favor you'll declare they're made to meet your ficaly ected packages oF 30 cifaretens taste! And, they arel or ten package igarettes) in a flassine-paper-covered carton. We strondly recommend this carton for the — Just compare Camels with any cigarette in the home or office supply or when you travel. G i Id at any price for quality and for the keen R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. wor Winston Selem, N. ral delight they supply! comicbooks.com