Health groups says Camel No. 9 cigarettes are targeting young women and girls with their fuschia and teal packaging and slogans like "Light and Luscious" and "Now available in stiletto." ...

RJ Reynolds, one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States, recently released a new type of cigarette, Camel No. 9, which some people say is marketed directly at young women.

The cigarette — packaged in a sleek black and blue box and called Camel Crush — is being test-marketed at local Quality Mart convenience stores, and beginning this month in Pennsylvania.

Joe Camel she isn’t. A palm-frond skirted hula girl with an orchid tucked behind her right ear, a lime-slice lei and long black hair is a new marketing image for the makers of Camel cigarettes.

The group says the Camel Crush cigarette ads ran in 24 magazines that target young people and may violate the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. The landmark agreement, among other measures ...

Fashion magazine ads for Camel No. 9 cigarettes scored such high marks with girls ages 12 to 16 that a year after they appeared, 22% of the girls in a new survey listed Camel as their favorite bran… ...