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A Nazi-era anti-smoking ad titled "The chain-smoker" reading: "He does not devour it, it devours him" (from the anti-tobacco publication Reine Luft, 1941;23:90) [1]. In the early 20th century, German researchers found additional evidence linking smoking to health harms, [2] [3] [1] which strengthened the anti-tobacco movement in the Weimar Republic [4] and led to a state-supported anti-smoking ...
The Institute for the Struggle against the Dangers of Tobacco[a] (German: Wissenschaftliches Institut zur Erforschung der Tabakgefahren[1]) was set up at the University of Jena in 1942. It was one of the first scientific institutes to discover the dangers of smoking tobacco, including the link between smoking and lung cancer.
Smoking in Germany. Cigarette smoker. In Germany, smoking is widespread and is subject to very few and lax regulations compared to other countries in Europe. [1][2][3] Tobacco taxes in Germany are among the lowest in Europe. [4] Germany ranks last on the Tobacco Control Scale [5] and has sometimes been referred to as the "smoker's paradise" of ...
Sturm Cigarette Company. An advertisement from January 1932, when the Nazis were trying to win power, showing a uniformed SA member, the Nazi swastika, the SA logo, and an anti- monopoly political slogan. The Sturm Cigarette Company (Sturm Zigaretten, Storm Cigarettes or Military Assault Cigarettes) was a cigarette company created by the Nazi ...
Civilian-sector drug policy in Nazi Germany. The German populace's experience during and after the First World War inspired the Weimar and Nazi governments to adopt an attitude of tolerance toward the use of drugs to relieve pain, increase performance, and avoid withdrawal. Most drugs were permitted either universally or for individuals with a ...
Nazi Germany saw the first modern anti-smoking campaign, [38] the National Socialist government condemning tobacco use, [39] funding research against it while levying increasing sin taxes on tobacco products, [40] and in 1941 banning tobacco in various public places as a health hazard.
The anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany did not reach across enemy lines during the Second World War, as anti-smoking groups quickly lost popular support. By the end of the Second World War, American cigarette manufacturers quickly reentered the German black market.
The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first ...