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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"
(contracted; show full) 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" />


The iconic style of Camel is the original unfiltered cigarette sold in a soft pack, known as Camel Straights or Regulars. Its popularity peaked through the brand's use by famous personalities such as news broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, whose usage of them was so heavy and so public that the smoking of a Camel no-filter became his trademark.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9YMV4BwRwTwC&pg=PA137|title=The Broadcast Century and Beyond: A Biography of American Broadcasting|last=Hilliard|first=Robert L.|last2=Keith|first2=Michael C.|date=2005|publisher=Focal Press|isbn=978-0-240-80570-2|language=en}}</ref>⏎
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