You gotta see this old comercial.

[mel_vin]

LOL, not sure if this has been posted anywhere on the forum or not in the past (I mean I just did on the the health boards part of a different thread) But check out this old black and white Flinstone comercial for Winston Cigarettes:

YouTube - Banned Commercial 1961 Flintstones Winston Cigarettes

Goes to show you we've come a long long way

Again sorry if this was covered before, but maybe some newbies just joining the site can get a chuckle out of it too

 

[dee5]

Wow, things sure were different just 40 short years ago! lol

 

[GMoney]

Wow, things sure were different just 40 short years ago! lol

Yes, shocking! A woman actually mowing the lawn!

 

[atom48]

Wow, things sure were different just 40 short years ago! lol

Time really flies...seems more like 50 years to me.

 

[hairball]

If they only knew then what we know now.

 

[Silent Soldier]

Fred: They sure work hard don't they Barney?
Barney: Yea, I hate to see them work so hard.
Fred: Yea me too, um, let's go around back where we can't see'em.

 

[OaklandCA]

If they only knew then what we know now.

sad thing is--they did--but covered it up for another couple of decades.
here's a half dozen studies linking smoking cigarettes to cancer as early as 1939--interstingly the big jump in cancer rates came with the shift from pipe smoking to mass manufactured cigarettes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC437139/

2. Müller FH. Tabakmissbrauch und lungencarcinoma. Zeitschrift Krebsforsch 1939;49: 57-85.
3. Schairer E, Schöniger E. Lungenkrebs und Tabakverbrauch. Zeitschrift Krebsforsch 1943;54: 261-69.
4. Wassink WF. Onstaansvoorwasrden voor Longkanker. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 1948;92: 3732-47.
5. Doll R, Hill AB. Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. BMJ 1950;221(ii): 739-48.
6. Doll R, Hill AB. A study of aetiology of carcinoma of the lung. BMJ 1952;225(ii): 1271-86.
7. Wynder EL, Graham EA. tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic carcinoma. JAMA 1950;143: 329-36.
8. Levin MI, Goldstein H, Gerhardt PR. Cancer and tobacco smoking. JAMA 1950;143: 336-38.
9. Mills CA, Porter MM. Tobacco smoking habits and cancer of the mouth and respiratory system. Cancer Res 1950;10: 539-42. [PubMed]
10. Shrek R, Baker LA, Ballard GP, Dolgoff S. Tobacco smoking as an etiologic factor in disease: cancer. Cancer Res 1950;10: 49-58.
11. Doll R, Hill AB. The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits. A preliminary report. BMJ 1954;228(i): 1451-55.
12. Doll R, Hill AB. Lung cancer and other causes of death in relation to smoking. A second report on the mortality of British doctors. BMJ 1956;233(ii): 1071-6.

 

[In Flames]

Yes, shocking! A woman actually mowing the lawn!

OMG!!! That is soooo funny. I remember when i was a kid i would go to the store with my friend and buy smokes for his dad. Back then, anybody could buy cigs without needing ID. We sure have come a long ways.

 

[daisyd]

I can tell it worked too. My 5 yo heard Fred and Barney and popped up on my lap trying to watch this. Just like how they used to have stores set up displays in security blind spots and reimburse them for losses. As a 13 yo I used to walk out of Walmart with five packs stuffed in my pants. Terrible.