1942: Adolf Hitler calls tobacco “the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor,” and directs one of the most aggressive antismoking campaigns in history, including heavy taxes and bans on smoking in many public places. The country’s antismoking movement loses most of its momentum after the Nuremberg trials, and by the mid-1950s, domestic consumption exceeds prewar levels.

Some sites:

Nazi Medicine and Public Health Policy

Commentary: Schairer and Schoniger's forgotten tobacco epidemiology and the Nazi quest for racial purity -- Proctor 30 (1): 31 -- International Journal of Epidemiology

Hitler's Anti-Tobacco Campaign

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Interesting as always.

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American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

One more reason to hate the guy. What's he got against a fine Cuban cigar?

Or a whiff of Borkum Riff ...

A painter who wouldn't drink! Some painter!

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