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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."