You have no logic in your statements.

A hospital smoking ban is draconian? Are you serious?

You’re right, I’ll concede, banning smoking in hospitals and trying to protect the health of female conductors . . . this man was truly a monster . . .

The Nazi party also discouraged drinking alcohol and encouraged better dietary choices. By your logic, we should all wash down our 15 donuts for breakfast with some Jack, because hey, if the Nazis said it then it simply must be pure evil and oppressive.

Grow up.

It’s 2009 buddy, move on.

If you want to smoke, then smoke. If you don’t want to smoke, then don’t smoke.

This is one of the most simple concepts one can come across.

Everyone lives their own life in accordance with how it makes sense to them.

Also, I don’t appreciate being judged as less intelligent for the fact that I fell into an addiction as a young teenager.

I also may drink vodka a bit too much. Does anyone care to judge me for that, just while we’re at it?

Keep your statistics. It’s a choice. In 50 years, will any of us here really care either way?

I’m tired of getting emails, please stop responding to him…

Hitler was a fervent anti smoker and a crusader for the anti-smoking cause. He personally funded research into the dangers of smoking and little wonder those results given the nature of his regime tended to support his assertions that smoking was an evil the Aryan race must be rid of. Many of the studies carried out during the Third Reich are the basis for the arguments put forward today by those seeking the imposition of repressive smoking bans.

Hitler once stated that tobacco was “the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man” Under the Nazi’s the Bureau Against the Dangers of Alcohol and Tobacco was established in 1939 followed in 1942 by the Institute for the Struggle against the dangers of Tobacco. Nazi’s were the first to coin the term “passive smoking”

Under the Nazi regime the German people had imposed on them the most comprehensive set of tobacco regulations and restrictions seen in any modern nation to that date. Hitler himself took particular interest in this area often personally overseeing the drafting and implementation of anti smoking policy.

“I am convinced that if I had been a smoker, I never would have been able to bear the cares and anxieties which have been a burden to me for so long. Perhaps the German people owe its salvation to that fact.”
Adolf Hitler 1942

Bans And Restrictions in Nazi Germany

The Luftwaffe banned smoking in 1938.
The German Post office introduced.it’s own ban
Smoking was barred in many workplaces, government offices, hospitals,and rest homes.
The NSDAP (National sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) announced a ban on smoking in its offices in 1939
SS chief Heinrich Himmler announced a smoking ban for all uniformed police and SS officers while on duty in 1939
Hermann Goering’s bans soldiers from smoking on the streets, on marches, and while taking rest periods.
Sixty of Germany’s largest cities banned smoking on street cars in 1941.
Smoking was banned in air raid shelters. Some provided separate rooms for smokers
Tobacco coupons were denied to any woman who was pregnant
Blanket smoking bans were introduced in many cafes, bars and restaurants
Women below the age of 25 were banned from smoking
Restaurants and cafes were barred from selling cigarettes to all female customers
In July 1943 it became illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to smoke in public.
Smoking was banned on all German city trains and buses in 1944. This initiative coming from Hitler himself,who was worried about exposure of young female conductors to tobacco smoke.