# Anybody smoke Camels? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2006, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138 "2006-09-10T09:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/1 "2006-09-10T09:00:54Z")
Well if you do, you might be aware that they have this website: [Smokers Welcome](http://www.smokerswelcome.com/CAM/dtclogin.jsp?brand=CAM). Anyway, if you go there and sign up, you’ll save roughly $20/month from the coupons and such, and get other useless freebies as well, such as the combination pocket knife/lighter I just received. But my point is more related to their latest promotion (I think it’s over). You get four free packs of experimental smokes through the mail, and rate them online. Then you get another free carton of the highest rated pack in a nice cherrywood box. Well, A, B, and D were smokable. But C is some nasty _orange_ tasting concoction, which I of course rated the lowest. Oh yeah, my wife smokes Camels too, and has no desire to rate cigarettes online, so I filled out her survey too. So tonight, I hit the bar, forget to buy smokes, go home, and am stuck with “C”. :mad: Murphy’s law dictates that I’ll receive two cartons of nasty orange ciggys. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/2 "2006-09-10T09:12:07Z")
Yeah, my ex used to be a Camel smoker. He’s dead now. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/3 "2006-09-10T09:20:16Z")
SWEET!!!1!! Was it lung cancer?!?!? I hope I hope I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/4 "2006-09-10T09:41:05Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] Yeah, my ex used to be a Camel smoker. He’s dead now. [/QUOTE] P.S. I’m really sorry if that’s true. But it doesn’t belong here. Some of us smoke, and, especially, I, don’t care to hear about it. I should have requested that anti-smokers not shit here, in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/5 "2006-09-10T09:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=Eleusis] SWEET!!!1!! Was it lung cancer?!?!? I hope I hope I hope. [/QUOTE] Totally out of order :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/6 "2006-09-10T09:48:15Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Totally out of order :mad: :mad: [/QUOTE] Yeah, because a thread obviously dedicated to smokers needed to get all that death shit thrown in. We know it’s dangerous. Already. Without your lucious happy happy joy joy thank you thank you surgeon general’s fucking warning :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/7 "2006-09-10T09:51:47Z")
Hell, move it to the pit, then. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/8 "2006-09-10T10:03:44Z")
[QUOTE=Eleusis] Hell, move it to the pit, then. [/QUOTE] Or don’t. I’m pretty sure we can handle this in MIPSMS even though **Chowder** wants to get pissed off. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/9 "2006-09-10T11:25:07Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Totally out of order :mad: :mad: [/QUOTE] Post #2 was out of order first. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/10 "2006-09-10T11:28:31Z")
My girlfriend smokes Camels. I’ll have to let her know about this site. I have seen it before, but I forgot about it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/11 "2006-09-10T12:15:48Z")
it is said that smoking will cut five to ten years off your life… but don’t worry – those years come at the back end; those are the worst years to have to live out anyway. and if you don’t smoke, you’ll spend those years healthily waiting six days a week for those few afternoon or evening hours that your grandchildren can afford to spare to witness you enjoying the dying process extended to it’s most elaborate & painful conclusion – with you in diapers & a wheelchair (unless you happen to be bedridden for other reasons anyway.) and as a bonus, they get to see you mentally regress through all the fucked-up experiences your generation knew, yet with no sense of context, nor any relation to the people or places you talk about, as alzheimer’s, or some other generic age-related dementia, turns your brain into a shotgunned version of swiss cheeze, and everything you ever believed to be important, including the names & faces of those you love the most, become frighteningly alien to you. ya, that sounds like a good reason to not smoke. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/12 "2006-09-10T12:37:03Z")
[QUOTE=bob\_loblaw] and if you don’t smoke, you’ll spend those years healthily waiting six days a week for those few afternoon or evening hours that your grandchildren can afford to spare to witness you enjoying the dying process extended to it’s most elaborate & painful conclusion – with you in diapers & a wheelchair [/QUOTE] Holy shit, I might start again, cigarettes la’ orange not withstanding. No lighter, knife or not, can be cooler than the Zippo. 🙂 \ ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/13 "2006-09-10T15:23:18Z")
Bactrian or Dromedary? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/14 "2006-09-10T15:29:31Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Bactrian or Dromedary? [/QUOTE] I believe that fringe would make the Bactrian easier to light. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/15 "2006-09-10T15:30:18Z")
[QUOTE=bob\_loblaw] ya, that sounds like a good reason to not smoke. [/QUOTE] What part of > [@OP](#): > > I should have requested that anti-smokers not shit here… was not clear to you? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/16 "2006-09-10T15:52:02Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] What part of was not clear to you? [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure ol’ Bob is pro-smoking - or at least not anti-smoking. As I read it, he is saying that the years you get back are so unpleasant as to not be worth giving up the smokes for. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/17 "2006-09-10T15:54:47Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] As I read it, he is saying that the years you get back are so unpleasant as to not be worth giving up the smokes for. [/QUOTE] Coulda been worded better, but OK. I’ll buy that. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/18 "2006-09-10T20:21:27Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] What part of was not clear to you? [/QUOTE] just to be clear, i actually am a smoker, and not an anti-smoker. perhaps you should reread my entire post, and not just te last line. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/19 "2006-09-10T21:39:10Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] I believe that fringe would make the Bactrian easier to light. [/QUOTE] Also, the root word of both ‘tobacco’ and ‘bactrian’ is ‘bac’, which is Greek for “spit”. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138/20 "2006-09-10T22:06:22Z")
[There are around 40 varieties of Camels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_cigarettes) Odd factoid in the wiki profile. Camels started off being advertised as a “less harsh” gentler smoke than the cigarettes being sold at the time in 1913, as opposed to the hardcore, high tar, coffin nail rep they have today. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-smoke-camels/372138.md?page=2)