first anti smoking national movement .....was

[almaty 19]

Nazi Germany initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement[1] and led the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history.[2] 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.[3] It was the most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world during the 1930s and early 1940s.[4] The Nazi leadership condemned smoking[5] and several of them openly criticized tobacco consumption.[4] Research on smoking and its effects on health thrived under Nazi rule[6] and was the most important of its type at that time.[7] Hitler's personal distaste for tobacco[8] 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.[9]

The Nazi anti-tobacco campaign included banning smoking in trams, buses and city trains,[4] promoting health education,[10] limiting cigarette rations in the Wehrmacht, organizing medical lectures for soldiers and raising the tobacco tax.[4] The Nazis also imposed restrictions on tobacco advertising and smoking in public spaces, and regulated restaurants and coffeehouses.[4] The anti-tobacco movement did not have much effect in the early years of the Nazi regime and tobacco use increased between 1933 and 1939,[11] but smoking by military personnel declined from 1939 to 1945.[12] Even by the end of the 20th century, the anti-smoking movement in postwar Germany had not attained the influence of the Nazi anti-smoking campaign.[11]

[Ban Hammer 12,901]

ergo, anti-smokers are nazis?

[almaty 19]

it is true..a direct historical correlation...

[Chica Yeyé 41]

ergo, anti-smokers are nazis?

I knew there was a conspiracy somewhere

[Ban Hammer 12,901]

ergo, anti-smokers are nazis?

I knew there was a conspiracy somewhere

what better way to unite conservatives and liberals in a common goal?

[Nagishkaw 510]

Anti-smokers....sheesh!

[Chica Yeyé 41]

ergo, anti-smokers are nazis?

I knew there was a conspiracy somewhere

what better way to unite conservatives and liberals in a common goal?

Don't push it

[Amby 490]

smoking is bad

[Ban Hammer 12,901]

smoking is bad

use more lube and that won't happen.

[Mononoke28 134]

So to re-cap:

Smoking = bad.

Killing Jews = good.

Got it!

Diana

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Well, I've seen smokers who freak out when I use an ashtray as a dustbin, so....

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Well, I've seen smokers who freak out when I use an ashtray as a dustbin, so....

how dare you?!?!?!

[Ban Hammer 12,901]

Well, I've seen smokers who freak out when I use an ashtray as a dustbin, so....

how dare you?!?!?!

yeah, what ever happened to the right tool for the job?

[almaty 19]

wow...

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I tell you... we are surrounded.