Before Joe Camel there was Fred Flinstone

[andyjackson1828]

Did you know original network run of The Flintstones (1960-1966) was sponsored by a cigarette maker and that you could watch the main characters smoking Winstons at the end of the show?


A really good (and disturbing) look at TV cigarette advertsing and promotion

http://www.tvparty.com//vaultcomcig.html

[yella_dawg]

1. Know?

I used to watch it.

[soleft]

2. Remember the box of cigarettes and Lucy and Ricky kept on their

coffee table?

[MrBenchley]

3. Ramar, King of the Jungle

used to get chased through the "jungle" by "headhunters"...He'd duck behind a bush, whip out a box of Good & Plenties, deliver a commercial directly to the camera, put the box away again and continue the chase.....

[Must_B_Free]

4. Smoking was considered "good for the T-Zone"

i.e. broncial fork

[Minstrel Boy]

5. Thanks! This just looks so wrong.

[DrWeird]

6. They used to have doctors recommend it in commercials.

And I also heard they had "cigarette days" in schools. While they took the girls into the gym to talk about menstruation, or some such thing, they'd take the boys and introduce them to a representative from a cigarette company, who would give them all free packs of cigarettes.