The rise and fall of the Joe Camel cartoon is a lesson in disastrous advertising. As a marketing ploy, Joe was allegedly ...

R.J. Reynolds just started selling the “Williamsburg” version of its Camel cigarettes — and I don’t know whether to be offended as a smoker, a Williamsburger or a human being. As a smoker, I’m pissed ...

A bill signed last week by Gov. Ted Kulongoski to ban smoking in Oregon bars come January 2009 has tobacco giant RJ Reynolds scrambling to find any patch of ground where a Camel-branded ashtray can ...

Can it have happened as crassly as I imagine it: A smoke-filled boardroom of a major U.S. tobacco company. Over the frequent coughs of his fellow executives, the chairman of the board nervously views ...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - Tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc said it appointed John Boehner, a former House Speaker and a known smoker of the company's Camel cigarettes, to its board. Boehner retired from ...

New York, NY -- The little box is black, sleek and shiny, with an elegant border of sophisticated teal or fuchsia. On the shelf, it stands out. It's chic, a little European, maybe a little "Sex and ...

To woo smokers, most U.S. cigarette makers long ago abandoned the naive idea that smoking was a mere pleasure. Instead, tobaccomen puffed up ad campaigns with testimonials from athletes and movie ...

Will switching every Marlboro smoker, and some Camel smokers, over to PMI’s product line curb the fall-off of smokers’ quitting and extend the lifecycle of the profitable consumer? So goes PMI’s ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) - R.J. Reynolds used "Camel Cash" coupons to double the sale of Camel cigarettes, then ripped the bottom out of the program to avoid redeeming "hundreds of thousands" of coupons its ...

Saturday night I will jump on a real-life spitting camel and race against a TV weather person, a disc jockey and a sports-talk host. Like the song, it's just another Saturday night. Sam Houston Race ...

(Reuters) - Tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc said it appointed John Boehner, a former House Speaker and a known smoker of the company's Camel cigarettes, to its board. Boehner retired from Congress ...