This is a classic example of fallacious advertising. This is a false appeal to sexiness. Cigarrette smoke is hardly attractive. Contrary to what Camel would like the consumer to believe, it's cancer-sticks are not a ticket to cool; tey are a prescription to an early death.
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OK, I'm willing to buy that cigs kill people. But some people at least found them sexy once upon a time. Alright, I don't really recall just why that was, but I do remember a lot of long close-ups of movie stars from the 30's, 40's, and '50's looking super-cool and drawing on cigs.
Do more than identify and contradict these, even if they feel as obvious as this one probably does.
How does Camel want to get us to believe that the cigs are sexy? What are we associating? There's the lady, to be sure, and she has a cigarette. But what's the thought-process that the advertiser anticipates?
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