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Steve Byrd tells us, “By the time Pebbles was born in 1963, the Flintstones were no longer pitching Winstons… they were selling Motorolas and Welch’s grape juice. No way would Winstons have sponsored a cartoon sitcom with a baby character.” Especially since it was in 1964 that the U.S. Surgeon General declared buy cigarettes was harmful to one’s health.

Of course, Fred and Wilma weren’t the only cartoon characters making cigarettes appear cute and cuddly in the early-sixties - there were original tobacco company concoctions.