More doctor smoke Camels than any other cigarette

Plot twist - the doctor in that photo is twenty six years old

Warning: Causes T-Zone Odor

Read a story about a Naval officer who was having his lung problems treated back in the early 1930s.

The treatment was to have a doctor stick a needle in their chest and draw out all the air from the affected lung. That gave the lung a chance to heal.

While the lung was reinflating, the officer would lie in bed and smoke a cigarette to relieve the stress.

1912 article dscribing the process

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/653274#:~:text=Artificial pneumothorax therapy consists in the repeated injections,indefinite period the collapse of a diseased lung.

I wonder why they would change the color of the letters M, D and C...

As a former smoker, I can attest that camels are the healthiest cigarette brand. I'm still alive after smoking them for years at least.