This should really come as no surprise, since there are at least two generations of people out there now that ONLY know the Flintstones because they shill fucking products. If it weren't for vitamins and cereal, the Flintstones would be a couple of shitty VHS movies with sun-bleached covers at the bottom of a bargain bin in a non-Blockbuster video store at a strip mall. So yeah, the Flintstones have been sell-outs from jump, and they started in with cigarettes. And this ran in prime time.
It has everything I've come to love about the 'Stones, too; Betty, who's undeniably smoking lava hot, the inherent misogyny, the use of animals as tools, and the merits of fine tobacco. How can you go wrong? Some things I particularly liked: the fact that the "pure white filter" appears less than white in the ad, the billboard on the outskirts of the town, Fred's Zippo.