When I was a kid, I referred to Virginaia Slims as Vagina Slimes.

Very mature, I know.

I'd say that the gun is marketed towards children and Japanese schoolgirls, not women.

mmm ... those camels are really yummy, you know, if you're into the whole lung cancer thing like me.

"What product will be marketed to women next?"

Computers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qptvCqtMg_o

I want a Hello Kitty assault rifle. I think it's the perfect accessory for fighting off unwanted gay bashings.

So, as I understand it, Camel's not even sponsering these ads.

So the concern is over people making videos of themselves smoking?

Last time I checked, smoking and videotaping yourself or others doing so is legal.

We should be moving toward a society where people are allowed to smoke whatever they want, not one where censorship runs wild.

Oh sure, and I'll bet you thought you were being all ironic and shit:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/01/pink-shotgun-from-re.html

Let anyone smoke whatever they want. Freedom! But with personal responsibility!!!! Smoke cigs, pay higher health insurance premiums, die young. Good!

Didn't the stranger put inserts for the Camel No. 9 in all their papers one week a while back? I seem to recall them littering the sidewalks all over Capitol Hill. Hmm.

That Hello Kitty AK-47 is so adorable... it's to die for! Literally.

@9

So what's the problem? That the Stranger is critical of its own advertisers once in a while?

Believe me, the willingness to do so is a GOOD thing.

I don't know whether to cry or crack up at My Little Carbine.

Although I definitely want a Motha T.

People, what is going on out there? I look down this table, all I see are white flags. Our numbers are down all across the board. Teen smoking, our bread and butter, is falling like a shit from heaven! We don't sell Tic Tacs for Christ's sake. We sell cigarettes. And they're cool and available and *addictive*. The job is practically done for us!

Seems to me the smoking models videos are aimed at smoking fetishists, not teenagers. www.smoking-models.com even has topless chicks and "smoke swapping" going on.

I think we should start charging higher insurance rates for people who hold in their pee. It leads to prostate problems later on. And also people who eat butter.

The HK-47 is truly the people's gun.

I always thought those ads said NOG. I couldn't figure out why they had Christmas themed cigs in the middle of the year.

Pink wood on the shotgun - god, I love it - saw it off, get slugs, and if you ever need to kill - it will do the job, from milk cow or bison to crazy doped up fiend trying to kill you with a rusty hunting knife.

Defy anyone to go the REAL hunting party with a pink painted shotgun - oh, I forgot, Dick Cheney has one ... matches his daughters.

Signed, Possible Hairy Fairy Freedom Fighter

Taking care of gay-bashing with Hello Kitty assault rifles. Hmmm. I don't think I'm that gay.

For something more pursesized:
http://www.gunshopfinder.com/smithandwesson/smithandwesson36LS.asp

Given my high-school daughter's periodic emotional roller coaster drama rides and Hello Kitty fanfoucus, I really, really don't want her to see this.

@9

No problem, dude. Chill. Put the butt down.

Just observing. Interesting that the Stranger took Camel's dirty money to help promote those sweet lil cancer lollipops, but still feels entitled to critique their marketing campaign. Hey, free speech, gotta have it. Don't get me wrong. It's all just interesting.