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- BUSINESS, Page 41Business NotesADVERTISINGIs the Camel A Sexist Pig?
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- For antismoking crusaders who want to ban cigarette
- advertising, the Camel ad was a handy piece of evidence. "The
- most appalling in decades," declared physician Sidney Wolfe,
- director of Public Citizen, a Washington consumer group. The
- four-page Camel ad, which was aimed at vacation-bound youths,
- offered tips like "how to impress someone at the beach: Run into
- the water, grab someone and drag her back to the shore, as if
- you've saved her from drowning. The more she kicks and screams
- the better."
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- Besides offending women, the ad alarmed health groups
- because it seemed to give underage readers tips on how to redeem
- a coupon for free cigarettes. The ad was lambasted last week
- before the House subcommittee on transportation and hazardous
- materials, which is considering a tobacco-ad ban. James
- Johnston, the new chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, has
- apologized for the ad. Said he: "It will never run again."
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