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* "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"
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'''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" />

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>

In Europe, Camel is also a brand of cigarette rolling papers and loose cigarette tobacco, maintaining a top 20 roll-your-own rank in Northern Europe with yearly expansion into Southern and Eastern Europe according to the European Subsidiary's annual report.

In 2012, Camel was surpassed by Pall Mall as R. J. Reynolds's most popular brand.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Craver|first=Richard|title=Reynolds to offer more menthol versions of Pall Mall cigarettes|url=https://journalnow.com/business/reynolds-to-offer-more-menthol-versions-of-pall-mall-cigarettes/article_ad29b2bc-ff1b-5dff-a82e-be1150763e12.html|access-date=2021-04-29|website=Winston-Salem Journal|language=en}}</ref>

== In popular culture ==

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