The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-45

BMJ [British Medical Journal] ^ | December 1996 | Robert N Proctor

[syriacus]

One topic that has only recently begun to attract attention is the Nazi anti-tobacco movement.

Germany had the world's strongest anti smoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s,supported by Nazi medical and military leaders worried that tobacco might prove a hazard to the race.

Many Nazi leaders were vocal opponents of smoking. Anti-tobacco activists pointed out that whereas Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt were all fond of tobacco, the three major fascist leaders of Europe-Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco-were all non-smokers.

Hitler was the most adamant,characterising tobacco as "the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man for having been given hard liquor." At one point the Fuhrer even suggested that Nazism might never have triumphed in Germany had he not given up smoking.

[Doe Eyes]

Has anyone compiled such a list? It would be very good to have such a list. Thanks.

I found this list.

Hitler's 12 Commandments

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler created his own Third Reich Bible, it has emerged.The rewritten text included his own 12 Nazi commandments, according to the Daily Mirror.

1. Honour God and believe in him wholeheartedly
2. Seek out the peace of God
3. Avoid all hypocrisy
4. Holy is your health and life
5. Holy is your wellbeing and honour
6. Holy is your truth and fidelity
7. Honour your father and mother - your children are your aid and your example
8. Keep the blood pure and your honour holy
9. Maintain and multiply the heritage of your forefathers
10. Be ready to help and forgive
11. Honour your Fuhrer and master
12. Joyously serve the people with work and sacrifice.

[dfwgator]

13. Kill Jews

[unkus]

Thank you Doe Eyes.

[syriacus]

look at it from the point of view of the smokers, shouldn't they also have a place to go and socialize?

I don't begrudge them that. They are victims of the law.

I am dissatisfied with the law that also makes it necessary for kids, who are going to lessons at the local music shop, to walk past the groups of smokers standing on the sidewalk outside the nearby bar and restaurants.

[Gabz]

I am dissatisfied with the law that also makes it necessary for kids, who are going to lessons at the local music shop, to walk past the groups of smokers standing on the sidewalk outside the nearby bar and restaurants.

The irony of that is among the myriad of "reasons" for these bans was the favorite canard "it's for the children." It mattered not that the children weren't permitted in the bars to begin with.

The law of unintended consequences. They wanted them out of bars and restaurants (out of sight, so to speak( and now they are whining about them being in plain sight.

I'm not talking about you, you have a very reasonable attitude on this, and I can appreciate where you are coming from. Unfortunately the majority that favor these bans are not in possession of similar reasonableness.