>>723615371
One of the most retarded things I heard growing-up was that one radio commercial stating
>MORE CHILDREN KNOW WHO JOE CAMEL IS THAN MICKEY MOUSE!!!!!
This was also the early 90's, and I think it's important to consider that Mickey wasn't exactly palstered everywhere back then, as this was Saturday morning-era Disney that wanted cool and not-gay cartoons, but also, if you wanted to see Mickey outside of TV, this required Disneyland/World, kinda pricey and location-depending, and if you wanted to see him specifically on TV, you needed a premium ABC affiliate (cable, selective programming), or the Disney Channel (paid cable).
Mickey on diapers? A family that smokes probably isn't buying Huggies, or any of the above, so no shit, a heavily-smoking demographic in-range of kids (poor/trashy) is gonna produce kids who are aware of the dicknosed mascot on mommy's backseat ashsticks. As if that wasn't bad enough, the delightful Budweiser frogs were nuked for the same reason: kids thinking the retarded frogs and their alligator friend are funny is going to produce drinkers
My family didn't smoke, but we also didn't get the Disney Channel/Toon Disney up until the early 2000's, back when satellite was no longer a seti dish in your sideyard and was being pushed as cheaply as possible to counter the digital cable competition. No matter how badly they try to hide shit to kids advertising-wise (or anything-wise), the moment someone grabs grandma's forgotten tablet in any given friend group and finds an open AP, it's all over
Camel may have went too far with this however
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHVsyA9zBw