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{{Infobox brand|logo=[[File:Camel cigarettes logo.png|200px]]|website={{URL|https://www.camel.com/}}|currentowner=[[R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company|R. J. Reynolds]]|introduced={{start date and age|1913}}|markets=See ''[[#Markets|Markets]]''|name=Camel|origin=[[United States]]|tagline={{collapsible list|
* "The Camels are coming"
* "I'd walk a mile for a Camel!"
* "For digestion's sake – smoke Camels"
* "Hump Day"
* "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette"
* "Have a REAL cigarette - Camel"
}}|type=[[Cigarette]]}}

'''Camel''' is an American brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in the United States and by Japan Tobacco outside the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-03-04|title=What We Make {{!}} R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304204507/https://rjrt.com/transforming-tobacco/what-we-make/|access-date=2021-04-29|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>

Most current Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish tobacco and Virginia tobacco. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the city where R. J. Reynolds was founded, is nicknamed "Camel City" because of the brand's popularity.

== History ==⏎
In 1913, Richard Joshua "R. J." Reynolds, founder of the company that still bears his name, innovated the packaged cigarette.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8rVQ6wKWdaYC|title=Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco|last=Burrough|first=Bryan|last2=Helyar|first2=John|date=2003-06-01|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-053635-0|language=en}}</ref> Prior cigarette smokers had rolled their own, which tended to obscure the potential for a national market for a pre-packaged product.<ref name=":0" /> Reynolds worked to develop a more appealing flavor, creating the Camel cigarette, which he so named because it used Turkish tobacco in imitation of then-fashionable Egyptian cigarettes.<ref name=":0" /> Reynolds priced them below competitors, and within a year, he had sold 425 million packs.<ref name=":0" />

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