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Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nazi Germany initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement and led
the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history. Anti-tobacco
movements grew in many nations from the beginning of the 20th century,
but these had little success except in Germany where the campaign was
supported by the government after the Nazis came to power. It was the
most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world during the 1930s and
early 1940s. The Nazi leadership condemned smoking and several of them
openly criticized tobacco consumption. Research on smoking and its
effects on health thrived under Nazi rule and was the most important of
its type at that time. Hitler's personal distaste for tobacco and the
Nazi reproductive policies were among the motivating factors behind
their campaign against smoking, and this campaign was associated with
both antisemitism and racism.
The Nazi anti-tobacco campaign included banning smoking in
trams, buses and city trains, promoting health education, limiting
cigarette rations in the Wehrmacht, organizing medical lectures for
soldiers and raising the tobacco tax. The Nazis also imposed
restrictions on tobacco advertising, tobacco rationing for women, and
smoking in public spaces, and they regulated restaurants and
coffeehouses….
Thank goodness that that sort of Health Fascism was defeated even at the cost of millions of lives….
Hattip An Englishmans Castle
