Talk:Joe Camel

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Joe Chemo
I received your email, but it is more acceptable to discuss content on the article's talk page, so it is a public record and other editors can participate in the conversation. I do not own the article. My email is there more for personal requests, or sensitive or private matters. I made some changes to your edits. There were a few issues I had with it: TarkusAB talk / contrib 04:15, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The wording made it sounds like Joe Chemo ads were published as advertisements in The New York Times and Adweek and other publications but we don't have reliable sources corroborating this. Adweek is an advertising trade publication and the NYT article was using the advertisement as a point of discussion in an article about Adbusters in 2012. None of the sources stated that Joe Chemo was published as an advertisement in other magazines.
 * Generally trimmed the section. All mentions of the character I could find in reliable sources are brief and usually in a larger article about Adbusters or anti-smoking in general. Removed the personal stuff about Plous and put more emphasis on Adbusters as creating the subvert, as that's how sources describe it.
 * Remove the JoeChemo.org stuff. The website is still linked at the bottom of the article. My issue with it is a self-published source claiming that Joe Chemo appeared in all these magazines, billboards, etc. but none of this is mentioned by any third-party. Not saying the website is lying, but it gives the impression of a much larger campaign than anyone else has described it as.