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We have seen US WW II pro-tobacco propaganda. What were they fighting against?

Nazi Germany was decades ahead of other countries in promoting health reforms that we today regard as "progressive" and "socially responsible". Most startling, Nazi scientists were the first to definitively link lung cancer and cigarette smoking.

Proctor began this book after discovering documents showing that the Nazis conducted the most aggressive antismoking campaign in modern history. Further research revealed that Hitler's government passed a wide range of public health measures, including restrictions on asbestos, radiation, pesticides, and food dyes. Nazi health officials introduced strict occupational health and safety standards, and promoted such foods as whole-grain bread and soybeans. These policies went hand in hand with health propaganda that, for example, idealized the Führer's body and his nonsmoking, vegetarian lifestyle.

We have seen US WW II pro-tobacco propaganda. What were they fighting against? Nazi Germany was decades ahead of other countries in promoting health reforms that we today regard as "progressive" and "socially responsible". Most startling, Nazi scientists were the first to definitively link lung cancer and cigarette smoking. Proctor began this book after discovering documents showing that the Nazis conducted the most aggressive antismoking campaign in modern history. Further research revealed that Hitler's government passed a wide range of public health measures, including restrictions on asbestos, radiation, pesticides, and food dyes. Nazi health officials introduced strict occupational health and safety standards, and promoted such foods as whole-grain bread and soybeans. These policies went hand in hand with health propaganda that, for example, idealized the Führer's body and his nonsmoking, vegetarian lifestyle.

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Germany had banned smoking in all Gov buildings in the 1930s and they pushed hard with health information about the ills of smoking and how it ruins your youth and fitness. You can imagine that Big Tobacco was no fans of this, as people elsewhere would sometimes read about this information elsewhere, like the US, and wonder what the Germans knew that they didnt.