watch it: the Flintstones flogging cigarettes, circa early 1960s

To let you know how well advertising can work on a young mind: as soon as I saw the title of the post I started humming "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." After 45 years, I still make the Flintstone/Winston connection.

But cigarette companies would never think to advertise to youngsters now, would they? [/snark]

Yeah, pretty amazing, right? Something to remember when people hyperventilate and panic because today's culture is so awful and is corrupting our poor, innocent childrens.

Remember that the Flintstones was a sitcom for the whole family to watch. I know some kids watched it alone and I'm not saying it isn't horrifying, but this would be more analogous to Bob Saget's character in Full House lighting up than say... a Smurf or Ben 10.

It's interesting that Wilma is doing yard work (I think?), a traditionally male chore, and at the end it's implied that the men are expected to clean the house and wash the clothes, traditionally female chores. I suppose it's for comedic effect (and also because they needed a reason for WIlma to be outside). If so, it's unintentionally subversive, maybe even a precursor to the feminism of the late 60's. How many sitcoms/commercials today would "dare" to show a woman mowing the lawn or a man cleaning the house/clothes at home? Not many I'd guess.

somehow its very dangerous specially for youth to see this type of advertisement about smoking cause somehow it affects their social life and may lead to this kind of habit.