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Are Social Media Platforms Responsible for Kids’ Deaths?

May 25, 2022

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Remember Joe Camel?

During the 1980s and 1990s, Joe was a cartoon mascot for Camel cigarettes. His smiling likeness appeared in print ads and billboards everywhere. He probably enjoyed as much celebrity as Tony the Tiger or Ronald McDonald.

Today, though, we remember Joe not as a cute icon but as a symbol of a nefarious corporate scheme aimed at luring adolescents to become smokers of Camel cigarettes. Camel’s parent company put Joe out to pasture in 1997 after documents surfaced showing that the company enlisted Joe as a central figure in a campaign targeting children as future smokers.

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