Big Tobacco would NEVER try to appeal to kids

Hey Barney Smoke 'em if you got 'em

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Flintstones
• Fred
• Barney
• Commercial
• Winston
• Classic

[Durethia]

This is true. People fail to realize, cartoons were never initially intended for children but adults. This holds true, to an almost unbelievable time frame of television history. Disney, for example, target audience was adults, not children; which might explain such deep rooted practices such as all the blatant sexual inuendos found in many Disney movies to this day such as Pirates of the Caribean series.

[TheMrpopo1997]

did they use flintstones to light the cigs?

[cbohar84]

Soon Dora the Explorer will be selling Newports XD

[ThePowerWithinMe]

@8th2009 Life is filled with propaganda with people much smarter than the average consumer.

[ThePowerWithinMe]

@UnseenAGT I know, right? I would rather be a brain dead consumer than have to use my mind for anything constructive. If only there was a device where when I watched TV I could watch only what I wanted to watch and then skip past all the propaganda and brainwashing instead of having to choose between the lesser of two evils. You figured a way to beat the system though. Brainwash me so I don't have to think for myself..... PURE GENIUS.

[UnseenAGT]

As much as I hate capitalism in this country, dont you wish you could live in the day when you could see cigarette commercials on TV instead of anti-smoking commercials? The tobacco companies atleast understand habits especially the legal ones that half of the country is trying to get rid of. We are bombarded with public service ads from the government- who wants you to obey, not enjoy yourself. Id rather be brainwashed by the cig companies who atleast want me to die buzzed on nicotine

[bigmigs94]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[8th2009]

smoking was classy back then

[jamiecranton]

i smoked during this

[Cubivore10]

Because Kids love to watch Honeymooner parodies. 

[fromthesidelines]

The main reason, according to Joe Barbera, that R.J. Reynolds agreed to co-sponsor "THE FLINTSTONES" in the fall of 1960 (with Miles Laboratories) was because the previous series they sustained on ABC's Friday night schedule the season before- "THE MAN FROM BLACKHAWK", starring Robert Rockwell- was considered by some to be an extremely violent Western, and the sponsors wanted a non-violent, "family-friendly" program to sustain.