0:24 There's no way. There's just no amount of times I can watch this and not feel blindsided by Barney non-chalantly whipping out a giant cigarette pack.
Likely because of how anachronistic it is. It would be like watching a period piece about 15th century knights and you see some dude spraying weeds from a canister while wearing a tyvek suit.
I watched the Flintstones as a kid in the 60's and remember Fred and Wilma lighting up at the end of each show and singing, "Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should!", though I don't remember this particular commercial. Seeing these commercials now is pretty weird. I remember reading later that at the time the cigarette companies were looking at marketing nicotine flavored candy, to get the kids hooked early, but it happily fell through.
"Winston delivers on flavor 20 times a pack." It cracks me up when Fred & Barney are watching Wilma & Betty do the yardwork while they're lighting up smokes. As ACcountry is pointing out, the Flinstones were orginally intended for adults and older teens to watch, not little kids. The Flintones didn't become kiddie icons until they were in syndicated reruns, mostly on weekday afternoons.
The Flintstones debuted in 1960, four years before the US Surgeon General first began requiring health warnings on cigarette packages; Pebbles weren't introduced until 1971. So it's doubtful, though I'm sure RJ Reynolds (the makers of Winston) would've loved the free advertising to kids (they were also the company behind the infamous Joe Camel ads.)
***** that whole skit was hilarious robot chicken is getting alot funnier last few seasons. I like how they make fun of things that are really popular now
Yep. Debi Austin (a noted anti-smoking activist) said that when she started smoking in 1963, kids were allowed to buy cigarettes for their parents. Her father was also a smoker, and some of the first cigarettes she smoked were Camels that she secretly took from him. So if the ability to buy cigarettes for her father led to her starting to smoke, then it's likely that many more kids of that time started smoking the same way.
Strangely enough the average life expectancy kept going up until they started cracking down on smokers. The stress of being harassed to quit smoking must be killing people.
it wasn't until the 1970's and 1980's versions that the FLINTSTONES became synonymous with children's programming. There was a string of newly animated cartoons featuring the Flintstone characters throughout the '70s and '80s and those cartoons are way more aimed at children and toned down. there was a series once called BEDROCK COPS where Fred and Barney play cops who ride on motorcycles. This series was one of the segments of "The Flintstone Comedy Show" that ran 1980-1982.
100% CORRECT!!!! it wasn't until the shows started to be in reruns that the emphasis was placed on children. if people knew this, instead of saying the show was peddling cigarettes to minor's, they'd see how outrageous their accusations are. even after H-B found out that kids liked THE FLINTSTONES, it was still written as an adult show, like an animated sit-com...but the cigarette commercials were removed.
They weren't targeting kids. The Flintstones, especially the first two seasons, were prime time and directed and an adult audience. Winston was their primary sponser. Once it was determined that the show appealed to kids, (Duh!), and the kids came along, Welch's Grape Juice became the primary sponser. Incidentally, these commercials didn't air until the 1960's when the Flinstones were in their original network run.
...being the nostalgia-oriented person that I am, I understand how adult-oriented a lot of cartoon characters once were and how they were toned down A LOT in the 1970's and 1980's.
when cartoons started to be thought of as strictly for children, a lot of the characters that were once aimed at adults, like the Flintstones, were restructured and the stories and character traits were adapted for a children's audience. now, because of that, the younger adults of today who were the children of the '70s and '80s, haven't the slightest idea of how adult-oriented the Flintstones once were in the '60s. It's like a discovery...and it appears odd or out of place to many...
"Let's take a Winston break!" Rock cig lighters, I always liked the gag about how they rub the two sticks together until they make fire. Almost as good as the intercom system that was really a talking bird that just flew from one desk/office to another.
Wow the Winstone billboard is edited out of the closing sequence today. They dont even show any sign of Freds smoking habit on Boomerang. Great Tv ad. makes me want to have a smoke right now in fact
These ads are actually a little sad if you know much about The Flintstones. Mel Blanc, the voice of Barney (who was also known for playing most of the Looney Tunes characters), was a longtime smoker from the age of nine and died of complications from emphysema in 1989. He smoked at least a pack a day and didn't quit until he was diagnosed at age 77. So in these commercials he's advertising the product that would eventually kill him.
My manager just told me that back when he was a kid, smoking was looked at as healthy and that people would be walking around inside the building smoking like it was nothing. I would have hated that lol.
Anyone remember candy cigarettes? They came in a cigarette box, were chalky sticks with a red tip. Since we couldn't actually buy cigarettes, we'd buy those and pretend to smoke until we could get our grubby mitts on the real things. Good lord how times have changed. ;D
I loved those! I remember two kinds. One type were basically a white candy stick with a red dyed tip as you said. They also made ones with red chewing gum covered with a white cigarette type paper. A penny a piece and if you blew into them puffs of smoke (probably extremely fine powdered sugar) came out. Happy childhood memories!
Yeah I love the Flintstones. They did a good job and deserve a smoke break. Cause working in the rock quarry is tough. And cutting the lawn so you needed a Winston every now and then and Wilma deserved one cause she had to put up with Fred and his complainin
Wilma and Betty then killed Fred and Barney and then stole their Winston Cigarettes, their cars, and then had a wild night on the town. But after tons of drugs, strip clubs, bank robbing, carjacking, and prostitutes, they were caught by the police and executed the same night. Their last words before they were hung were "Winston is the one kind of cigarette that gives you 20 flavors a pack, but gave us a trip to the gallows also!" The date was 4,247 B.C. It is also unknown where the bodies are.
The things I wouldnt do to live in that...to come home turn the radio, listen to good music, have a wife that cares and is proud of her housewife role, to watch great black and white tv...the movies, the ad, the products, the simpler times...My god,
Okay this is a nine-year-old comment I wasn't going to respond to any comments because they're too old. Talk about rose-colored glasses BS your Leave It to Beaver 1950s and 60s didn't exist. If you haven't figured out mass media television shows radio back then showed fake idealistic world that didn't exist then your naive historically the only the thing great about the 50s and 60s is the middle-class thrived other than that what you just described is absolute lie this is equivalent to a fourteen-year-old saying music sucks now I only listen to Old music I'm too cool for my current generation just with Rose Colored Glasses on the time you never lived. This is equivalent of I am 14 years old in this is deep nostalgia the comments are too old at the out this guy or anyone's going to respond sorry if I seem too critical the only people that should want to go back and live in the 1950s and 60s are the people that grew up in the 1950s and 60s and not someone with I'm too cool for my generator nostalgic hipster thinking.
The industry has changed so much (for the better). It's finally regulated. Now we can't even run a commercial in kids content programming that is related to that program . i.e. You can't air a Garfield or related character plush toy in a Garfield animated series (cartoon)
@@trashking1867 that's true. The only reason animation became associated with children was because when TV first started there were no shows produced yet, specifically for kids or "K 2-11" as they call the primary audience . Animation was readily available filler and it didn't cost much to buy local market television rights for programming . But all animation was becoming associated with children by this time period so smoking... the boys ... not great for the wee kiddies . I worked on advertising on the beer business. They used to target males just under legal, age to build that brand loyalty first. That's when it's formed. Nasty. "Flintstones "was drawing some kid audience #'s by then however. I still think Fred & Barney should be better role models by now & should be vaping at least. Take care :)
Barney: "Heya Fred, you need a light for that smoke with the smooth, rich flavor?" Fred: "Do I ever, old pal!" (They light their cigarettes with a lighter that has a little bird pop out with a match.) Fred: "Mmm-mm! Yabba-dabba-doo!" (cuts to the present, with Fred Flintstone in a hospital) Fred: (speaking through an electrolarynx) "Yabba dabba doo."
Actually there was an article in Readers Digest back in 1951 called "Death By The Carton" that first suggested smoking was harmful, but in 1964 the surgeon-general made it official.
Flintstones aired from 1960-66 So no not the 50's The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston (dictated by the custom, at that time, that the star(s) of a TV series often "pitched" their sponsor's product in an "integrated commercial" at the end of the episode)
They even changed the name of the town. The town where the Flintstones live is called Bedrock, but for the commercial, they changed it to Winston. Look at the billboard in 1:15
I was a kid/in my early teens when the Flintstones were in their network run: Fred&Barney could've been pitching fully automatic weapons and very few younger children would've seen the ads. Most young children were in bed and asleep when The Flinstones was still airing in prime time.
America was far more than awesome, it WAS America...Everybody pulled their weight turning their small businesses into the giants of today....Good television, good sports, pass times were meant to be glorified... A big mac back than was a REAL big mac...Everything was genuine,
I've seen this banned American cigarette ad featuring The Flintstones characters from the 1960s on RUclips before. It promotes cigarettes, which are definitely not intended for kids (and in fact illegal) for them to purchase. They also achieve this by having familiar cartoon characters (Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble) endorse their carcinogenic product. Cigarette ads have been banned nowadays.
I remember it was a big family event on December 31, 1970 in the USA to watch the last legal TV cigarette commercials. My favorites were the Benson&Hedges,' although they all had catchy jingles.
what people forget or don't want to acknowledge is that the FLINTSTONES in their original run, 1960-1966, was primarily a cartoon aimed at adults and not children. but in spite of how many times others and myself explain the facts, people are still going to ignore the facts and accuse the show of advertising cigarettes on a "kids show". nobody wants to hear that the show wasn't a "kids show" in the beginning.
No, the Flintstones was sponsored by Winston (They need to get money somewhere.) so they needed to advertise the cigarettes somehow. I'm not sure if they were taken out later or not, though.
"I hate to see them work so hard."
"Yeah, me too. Let's go around back, where we can't see them."
LOL
🤣😂🤣
that's like family guy humour
Gee we ought to do something Fred
@@troywright359, here's the catch: kids can watch The Flintstones with no problem.
@@troywright359Flintstones essentially _was_ the Family Guy of its time, it’s just overall standards have changed
0:24 There's no way. There's just no amount of times I can watch this and not feel blindsided by Barney non-chalantly whipping out a giant cigarette pack.
With cigarettes already sticking out!
Looks like something that would be edited in on a RUclips Poop 🤣💀
Hey Fred, excuse me while I whip this out!
Likely because of how anachronistic it is. It would be like watching a period piece about 15th century knights and you see some dude spraying weeds from a canister while wearing a tyvek suit.
I watched the Flintstones as a kid in the 60's and remember Fred and Wilma lighting up at the end of each show and singing, "Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should!", though I don't remember this particular commercial. Seeing these commercials now is pretty weird. I remember reading later that at the time the cigarette companies were looking at marketing nicotine flavored candy, to get the kids hooked early, but it happily fell through.
smart guys
"Winston delivers on flavor 20 times a pack."
It cracks me up when Fred & Barney are watching Wilma & Betty do the yardwork while they're lighting up smokes.
As ACcountry is pointing out, the Flinstones were orginally intended for adults and older teens to watch, not little kids. The Flintones didn't become kiddie icons until they were in syndicated reruns, mostly on weekday afternoons.
In 1967, there was a Busch Beer ad featuring the main 6 (Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, Barney, Betty, & Bamm-Bamm).
They ended up on boomrang and were still around when I was watching boomerang after primary school
So it was basically Family Guy of the '60s XD
@@novantaresI'd say more like The Simpsons
Before The Flintstones had their own breakfast cereals and children's chewable multivitamins, they advertised cigarettes.
I grew up in the 90s when they shilled vitamin. I bugged my mom for those. I wonder if I would've turned out to be a smoker if I grew up in the 60s.
"I hate to see them work so hard."
"Yeah, me too. Let's go around back, where we can't see them."
That is so fucking good lmao
Wonder if you could get a free pack of Winston in the bottom of every box of Fruity Pebbles.
Or coaco pebbles
The Flintstones debuted in 1960, four years before the US Surgeon General first began requiring health warnings on cigarette packages; Pebbles weren't introduced until 1971. So it's doubtful, though I'm sure RJ Reynolds (the makers of Winston) would've loved the free advertising to kids (they were also the company behind the infamous Joe Camel ads.)
I don’t think cigarettes are healthy. They give people lung cancer. I definitely don’t want to catch that.
Flintstone Vitamins
I think you can you just have to mail in a card or something then they’ll send your kids cigarettes through the mail.
"Bedrock is flavor country."
"Put that out f***face, you're standing next to pure oxygen." *BOOM!*
"I never get tired of hearing your robot voice there, Fred!"
+Santos Nieto Oh cheer up Fred, Bedrock is Flava Country
"Put that out, fuckface! You're standing next to pure oxygen!" *KABOOM*
+Richard Smith That was SO FUNNY! I love parodies of these Flintstones Winston Cigarettes commercials, and Robot Chicken did a hilarious job with it.
***** that whole skit was hilarious robot chicken is getting alot funnier last few seasons. I like how they make fun of things that are really popular now
BARNEY
YOU'RE
AN
ASSHOLE
Spongebob: Hey Patrick, I sure am thirsty.
Patrick: I know what'll hit the spot, how about some Jim Beam Bourbon?
I always get a kick out of the Flintstone characters smoking those big live-action Winston cigarettes, even if it's kinda gross.
Both the pack and the cigarettes are bigger than Barney's hand, if you noticed.
Commercials like this make sense when you realize that The Flintstones were the Simpsons/Family Guy of their time
The good ol days lol
I'd disagree about that
Very unfortunate channel logo...
@@slent5346lmao
I doubt this was a 1950's ad considering that The Flintstones didn't premier until 1960.
Yep, this commercial is from 1960, back when the Flintstones was a brand-new show and meant for mature audiences!
Some of us do make mistakes
Back in the days when you could send a kid to the store to get you a pack of cigarettes
Yep. Debi Austin (a noted anti-smoking activist) said that when she started smoking in 1963, kids were allowed to buy cigarettes for their parents. Her father was also a smoker, and some of the first cigarettes she smoked were Camels that she secretly took from him. So if the ability to buy cigarettes for her father led to her starting to smoke, then it's likely that many more kids of that time started smoking the same way.
When I was fourteen I bought a package of cigarettes for my father without a note or anything.
That would have been impossible in this day and age.
My Dad, who was born in the 60's, tells me me he used to do that for his Mom.
@@jrcasselman I think these days you have to have an ID even if you are clearly an adult.
Jeeeez, I actually remember these commercials.
"They sure work hard dont they Barney?"
"Yeah I hate to see em work so hard"
"Yeah me too... lets go smoke"
Grand Dad would be disappointed.
Grand sad
I can't help but think this is awesome.
The Filinstones was then what shows like The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy are now. An animated show for adults.
Simpsons And Flintstones Are Kids
@@sriramnallan it’s been 13 years bro. Don’t you think you are a bit late
@@Halowillneverbetaken so what? Internet is for that purpose
@@kaycey7361 I just find it funny that he replied 14 years after it was posted. It was just a joke
'And then an entire generation died of cancer. The end'
So now it's opioids - not really the end, is it.
and half the generation after it
Strangely enough the average life expectancy kept going up until they started cracking down on smokers. The stress of being harassed to quit smoking must be killing people.
@@jamesedwards.1069 that's the funniest thing I've read in the last 6 months. lol.
Wrong! I’m still here. Been smoking since ‘58.
it wasn't until the 1970's and 1980's versions that the FLINTSTONES became synonymous with children's programming. There was a string of newly animated cartoons featuring the Flintstone characters throughout the '70s and '80s and those cartoons are way more aimed at children and toned down. there was a series once called BEDROCK COPS where Fred and Barney play cops who ride on motorcycles. This series was one of the segments of "The Flintstone Comedy Show" that ran 1980-1982.
100% CORRECT!!!! it wasn't until the shows started to be in reruns that the emphasis was placed on children. if people knew this, instead of saying the show was peddling cigarettes to minor's, they'd see how outrageous their accusations are.
even after H-B found out that kids liked THE FLINTSTONES, it was still written as an adult show, like an animated sit-com...but the cigarette commercials were removed.
Actually, the Flinstones was mainly watched by adults when it first aired.
Yabba Dabba Cancer
+Razor NetOut Yabba Dabba Doooo!
+jonwiley lol
Kim Patricio that’s funny af
Jesus christ, this is yabba dabba depressing!
Smoking...just Yabba Dabba dont....
They weren't targeting kids. The Flintstones, especially the first two seasons, were prime time and directed and an adult audience. Winston was their primary sponser. Once it was determined that the show appealed to kids, (Duh!), and the kids came along, Welch's Grape Juice became the primary sponser.
Incidentally, these commercials didn't air until the 1960's when the Flinstones were in their original network run.
Best commercial ever. Period.
...being the nostalgia-oriented person that I am, I understand how adult-oriented a lot of cartoon characters once were and how they were toned down A LOT in the 1970's and 1980's.
when cartoons started to be thought of as strictly for children, a lot of the characters that were once aimed at adults, like the Flintstones, were restructured and the stories and character traits were adapted for a children's audience.
now, because of that, the younger adults of today who were the children of the '70s and '80s, haven't the slightest idea of how adult-oriented the Flintstones once were in the '60s. It's like a discovery...and it appears odd or out of place to many...
omg times have really changed something like this would not be aloud to air these days
Wow! How times have changed! That's amazing.
"Let's take a Winston break!"
Rock cig lighters, I always liked the gag about how they rub the two sticks together until they make fire. Almost as good as the intercom system that was really a talking bird that just flew from one desk/office to another.
Wow the Winstone billboard is edited out of the closing sequence today. They dont even show any sign of Freds smoking habit on Boomerang. Great Tv ad. makes me want to have a smoke right now in fact
Before they shilled sugary cereals and children's vitamins, the Flintstones shilled cigarettes. What a time to be alive
Don't forget Busch Beer. There was a 1967 Busch Beer ad featuring the main 6 (Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, Barney, Betty, & Bamm-Bamm).
Exactly
These ads are actually a little sad if you know much about The Flintstones. Mel Blanc, the voice of Barney (who was also known for playing most of the Looney Tunes characters), was a longtime smoker from the age of nine and died of complications from emphysema in 1989. He smoked at least a pack a day and didn't quit until he was diagnosed at age 77. So in these commercials he's advertising the product that would eventually kill him.
Phoenix Wright sent me here
+MiDuWay Questioning my life choices...
+MiDuWay ? How did Phoenix Wright send you here? I played the triology & Dual Destinies and remember nothing of the sort.
Adam Lapidus /watch?v=1Uvkp8Dw6m0
MiDuWay I still don't get it; it's just a song.
If you watch the above video with annotations, one of them leads to this.
My manager just told me that back when he was a kid, smoking was looked at as healthy and that people would be walking around inside the building smoking like it was nothing. I would have hated that lol.
Anthony Batista you probably wouldn't have known better back then.
I've heard that some doctors used to recommend smoking to patients and in some cases even smoked themselves.
It does calm your nerves
omg love it my brand and favorite cartoon
It breaks my heart the Free would ever smoke a filtered cigarette. I always thought he was a roll your own non filter type of guy.
Never did I realize that Grand Dad was sponsored by tobacco industries.
Come on, barn, Let's celebrate with a Winston Cigarettes - Nostalgia Critic
Anyone remember candy cigarettes? They came in a cigarette box, were chalky sticks with a red tip. Since we couldn't actually buy cigarettes, we'd buy those and pretend to smoke until we could get our grubby mitts on the real things. Good lord how times have changed. ;D
I loved those! I remember two kinds. One type were basically a white candy stick with a red dyed tip as you said. They also made ones with red chewing gum covered with a white cigarette type paper. A penny a piece and if you blew into them puffs of smoke (probably extremely fine powdered sugar) came out. Happy childhood memories!
Yeah I love the Flintstones. They did a good job and deserve a smoke break. Cause working in the rock quarry is tough. And cutting the lawn so you needed a Winston every now and then and Wilma deserved one cause she had to put up with Fred and his complainin
That hurts just watching it. I can't believe they did this
WHAT.
WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN.
There goes my fucking childhood.
I watch this at least twice a year every year.
I can’t believe before cereal the Flinstones advertised cigarettes.
Wilma and Betty then killed Fred and Barney and then stole their Winston Cigarettes, their cars, and then had a wild night on the town. But after tons of drugs, strip clubs, bank robbing, carjacking, and prostitutes, they were caught by the police and executed the same night. Their last words before they were hung were "Winston is the one kind of cigarette that gives you 20 flavors a pack, but gave us a trip to the gallows also!" The date was 4,247 B.C. It is also unknown where the bodies are.
"I hate to see them work so hard."
"Well, let's go around back where we can't see them."
Maybe call it WINSTONE since it's B.C.
The things I wouldnt do to live in that...to come home turn the radio, listen to good music, have a wife that cares and is proud of her housewife role, to watch great black and white tv...the movies, the ad, the products, the simpler times...My god,
Okay this is a nine-year-old comment I wasn't going to respond to any comments because they're too old. Talk about rose-colored glasses BS your Leave It to Beaver 1950s and 60s didn't exist. If you haven't figured out mass media television shows radio back then showed fake idealistic world that didn't exist then your naive historically the only the thing great about the 50s and 60s is the middle-class thrived other than that what you just described is absolute lie this is equivalent to a fourteen-year-old saying music sucks now I only listen to Old music I'm too cool for my current generation just with Rose Colored Glasses on the time you never lived. This is equivalent of I am 14 years old in this is deep nostalgia the comments are too old at the out this guy or anyone's going to respond sorry if I seem too critical the only people that should want to go back and live in the 1950s and 60s are the people that grew up in the 1950s and 60s and not someone with I'm too cool for my generator nostalgic hipster thinking.
a sign of the times ... even doctors were used to sell cigs back then!
The industry has changed so much (for the better). It's finally regulated. Now we can't even run a commercial in kids content programming that is related to that program . i.e. You can't air a Garfield or related character plush toy in a Garfield animated series (cartoon)
This show was made for adults back in the day
@@trashking1867 that's true. The only reason animation became associated with children was because when TV first started there were no shows produced yet, specifically for kids or "K 2-11" as they call the primary audience . Animation was readily available filler and it didn't cost much to buy local market television rights for programming . But all animation was becoming associated with children by this time period so smoking... the boys ... not great for the wee kiddies . I worked on advertising on the beer business. They used to target males just under legal, age to build that brand loyalty first. That's when it's formed. Nasty.
"Flintstones "was drawing some kid audience #'s by then however. I still think Fred & Barney should be better role models by now & should be vaping at least. Take care :)
Damn 60s adverts own!
A similar commercial was on "The Beverly Hillbillies" in the 1960's. It usually alternated weeks with the Kellogg's commercial.
next thing you know, spongebob will be snorting crack while he tells us how awesome it is.
lol I could see that as a Family Guy skit.
As soon as Barney lit his cigarette, I camed and started farding.
WEENSTONE?!
Well, there's yet another painful shot to my childhood :(
" I hate to see them work so hard!" "Yeah me too." "umm..let's go around back where we can't see um!"
Obligatory *GRAND DAD* comment
Barney: "Heya Fred, you need a light for that smoke with the smooth, rich flavor?"
Fred: "Do I ever, old pal!"
(They light their cigarettes with a lighter that has a little bird pop out with a match.)
Fred: "Mmm-mm! Yabba-dabba-doo!"
(cuts to the present, with Fred Flintstone in a hospital)
Fred: (speaking through an electrolarynx) "Yabba dabba doo."
“Jesus Christ, this is yabba-dabba-depressing.”
wow Winston's been around since the stone age??? They MUST be good!
The early days when silent artists appeared in the 60s for advertisement fun
Actually there was an article in Readers Digest back in 1951 called "Death By The Carton" that first suggested smoking was harmful, but in 1964 the surgeon-general made it official.
Flintstones aired from 1960-66 So no not the 50's
The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston (dictated by the custom, at that time, that the star(s) of a TV series often "pitched" their sponsor's product in an "integrated commercial" at the end of the episode)
Flintstones first appeared on TV in 1960...
How did this happen? I mean flintstones in the 50's was probably the most popular cartoon so damn..... nice going hannah barbera
lol my dad told me about this commercial so I looked it up! lol that's how I got here
They even changed the name of the town. The town where the Flintstones live is called Bedrock, but for the commercial, they changed it to Winston. Look at the billboard in 1:15
Watching this as I’m smoking a Winston
I love how they aren't animated, just pasted right in there.
Duff fills your Q-zone with pure beer goodness.
I was a kid/in my early teens when the Flintstones were in their network run: Fred&Barney could've been pitching fully automatic weapons and very few younger children would've seen the ads. Most young children were in bed and asleep when The Flinstones was still airing in prime time.
I'm glad they don't have cigarettes commercials anymore
We scoff at this while 50% of commercials on modern TV are for drugs with side effects like rectal bleeding, heart attacks, and death.
Thanks Joel
I remember getting in trouble for pulling this up on the Blu-ray’s RUclips when I was 7
I always thought Flintstones was originally aimed at adults.
I'm actually saw this used in a news video about drugs disguised as candy
@Lyle24Odelein The Flintstones was not a children's cartoon. It was aired for prime time back in the 60's.
The Flintstones weren't kids characters in the 60s, it was a prime time show targeted at adults
It is obvious that the network knew that The Flintstones appealed equally to kids AND adults
If they did something like this today, Fred Flintstone would be vaping for JUUL.
Makes me want to see "Flintstones! The Untold Story!"
❤ the Flintstones, great cartoons
A teacher said to me that if I watch this I will start to smoke but nothing is happening
OMG, I remember those days. LOL
America was far more than awesome, it WAS America...Everybody pulled their weight turning their small businesses into the giants of today....Good television, good sports, pass times were meant to be glorified... A big mac back than was a REAL big mac...Everything was genuine,
I've seen this banned American cigarette ad featuring The Flintstones characters from the 1960s on RUclips before.
It promotes cigarettes, which are definitely not intended for kids (and in fact illegal) for them to purchase. They also achieve this by having familiar cartoon characters (Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble) endorse their carcinogenic product.
Cigarette ads have been banned nowadays.
BADASS!
this is amazing.
I remember it was a big family event on December 31, 1970 in the USA to watch the last legal TV cigarette commercials. My favorites were the Benson&Hedges,' although they all had catchy jingles.
awesome- watching people working hard makes me want a winston break
Never smoked a cigarette in my life. Walked away from this ad going "Damn I kinda want a cigarette"
Back then you wouldn't get cancer that fast from smoking.
what people forget or don't want to acknowledge is that the FLINTSTONES in their original run, 1960-1966, was primarily a cartoon aimed at adults and not children. but in spite of how many times others and myself explain the facts, people are still going to ignore the facts and accuse the show of advertising cigarettes on a "kids show".
nobody wants to hear that the show wasn't a "kids show" in the beginning.
I've never smoked before as well and right now I'd die to take a Winston break. Scary ...
No, the Flintstones was sponsored by Winston (They need to get money somewhere.) so they needed to advertise the cigarettes somehow. I'm not sure if they were taken out later or not, though.
My favorite brand of cigarettes! ❤
Now I want a Winston!