camel cigs question

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norge
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camel cigs question

Post by norge » Sat Jan 18, 2020 3:33 pm

have these Camel cigs.
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I know the one on the right is from a MCI but I don't know what ration/year the left one come from. maybe a K ration?
cigs specialist welcome to solve this :D

cheers ken

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Smitty
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Re: camel cigs question

Post by Smitty » Sat Jan 18, 2020 3:41 pm

Edit: dang, I got my left and rights confused, haha. In anycase, here’s my original and useless comment below:

The tag line might be the key.

It appears they started using that in the 60’s. Though I wonder if more doctors still smoked camels that late, haha

http://indymotorspeedway.com/cigs/1960s.html
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Re: camel cigs question

Post by rationtin440 » Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:57 pm

Apologies if this is off topic, but the reference to doctors smoking camels somehow made me think of a portion of NBC training I went thru in the 1980s regarding blood agent detection, where we were instructed "if your cigarette becomes tasteless or offensive, spit it out ( :roll: ) and don your mask immediately."

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Re: camel cigs question

Post by norge » Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:28 am

thanks for info. I found out that the camels on the left are from the K ration-ww2.

cheers ken

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