Joe Camel
Cartoon characterWikipedia
97
MENTIONS
45
EPISODES
43
PODCASTS
Search complete. 97 mentions across 45 episodes found for "Joe Camel".
Sep 21, 2026
Merlin MannHOST
But I think it was California passed a law that most I think most states have now, which can't sell tobacco products at a place that also has a pharmacy.
Merlin MannHOST
What? Really? What is the possible connection between those two things? I mean, if you go back, I'm speculating here, but like if you go back to, you know, you and I can remember what a big dust up it was in the 90s with all the smoking lawsuits and Joe Camel.
Merlin MannHOST
And as I pointed you to before, UCSF here in town has this incredible...
Merlin MannHOST
Incredible collection from the tobacco lawsuit archives.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
It made tobacco companies pay billions and changed what they were allowed to do.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
Remember Joe Camel? There's a reason you don't see him anymore.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
It was because of that s- that settlement, and that's essentially what we're seeing here.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
Meta is paying billions, but it also agrees to change the product with time limits, overnight restrictions, stronger age checks.
Mike ChurchHOST
Remember when that act passed back in the 90s? You couldn't buy Camel...
Mike ChurchHOST
cigarette lighters anymore, you know, the Zippo lighters that had the stamped in Joe Camel.
Mike ChurchHOST
Couldn't buy a Joe Camel leather jacket or a Joe Camel t-shirt anymore or a Marlboro Man shirt or anything of the sort.
Mike ChurchHOST
You can't have anything with a cigarette brand logo printed on it.
Mike ChurchHOST
They basically made it illegal.
Tim KalpakisHOST
Right.
Jeff DuttonHOST
If they can't use Joe Camel to advertise cigarettes, they shouldn't be able to use such tantalizing colors.
Jeff DuttonHOST
That cock knows Camel? Yeah.
Tim KalpakisHOST
It's funny now, because now on the – they shift the name.
Koji NagataPANELIST
No, no, They probably realize that kids were playing Spider-Man and they're like, how do we appeal to kids? We're like, oh, this is like rated R, but like really we're marketing it towards you.
Koji NagataPANELIST
It's like the Joe Camel of cigarettes.
Koji NagataPANELIST
You know what I mean? It's like, this isn't, this is supposed to be out of your reach, but it's actually for you.
Koji NagataPANELIST
And it's not for us
Daniel Bridge-GaddHOST
camels, Campbell camels.
Tristan BowlingHOST
I think they thought of this when like Camel was like, all right, what is, we're thinking Joe Camel.
Tristan BowlingHOST
Yeah, what's his name, like Carl, maybe we do that.
Tristan BowlingHOST
No, no, it was like in the iteration, it's like we're looking for a mascot, we have this dude, it's like, who's popular right now? Well, all of us are smoking our lungs into dust.
Maxx FullerPANELIST
...
Maxx FullerPANELIST
Joe Camel, that was a thing.
Parker FoxGUEST
Yeah, true.
Maxx FullerPANELIST
'Cause he was a cartoon, made you wanna smoke s- cigarettes.
Esmeralda LeonHOST
Oof, that's rough.
Nick DigilioHOST
All right, how about this? You remember Joe Camel?
Esmeralda LeonHOST
I do.
Esmeralda LeonHOST
I do remember Joe Camel.
Nick DigilioHOST
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company introduced a cool cartoon camel to market cigarettes.
Nick DigilioHOST
The medical studies soon proved that the cartoon design was incredibly effective at appealing to children-
Esmeralda LeonHOST
[laughs]
Nick DigilioHOST
... and following massil- massive legal pressure, uh, and major public lawsuits, and strict government cra- ca- uh, crackdowns on, uh, tobacco advertising, Joe Camel was banned from American advertising in 1997.
Sean WilliamsHOST
[laughs]
Danny GoldHOST
I'd have the, I've got the Joe Camel sunglasses on.
Danny GoldHOST
Dude, we would just, we would kill it.
Danny GoldHOST
But of course-
CoryHOST
Go away.
CoryHOST
It's giving Joe Camel how many cigs it took to get the cancer.
CoryHOST
Listen, they could get me with that.
CoryHOST
I mean, that's exactly why they got rid of Joe Camel, brother, because they was getting you with that.
CoryHOST
Oh, yeah.
CoryHOST
That's exactly what happened, actually.
35 more episodes mention Joe Camel.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.