2006-12-01 05:43:56 · 15 answers · asked by yellowpalma 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
he did not make it illegal. but he was very much into a strong arian race. he compared his hitlerjugend to panthers and other wild animals. their grace and strength overpowering the enemy. a huffing and puffing panther doesn't make for a strong image. he looked down on smoking and would'nt allow it around him. that was enough for most everybody not to smoke.
2006-12-01 05:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by gabriela 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES!! During the 30s and early 40s Hitler banned all
smoking and the use of tobacco products in all buildings
and public places.There is a book written by Robert N. Proctor, with the title of "THE NAZI WAR ON CANCER.
Do a Yahoo.Search on Hitler's Anti-Tobacco Campaign
nd it will explain more and also do a Yahoo Search on
Did Hitler Ban Smoking in Nazi Germany!!
2006-12-01 05:57:37 · answer #2 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hitler put a ban on smoking anywhere in his presence but even he wouldn't have survived a total ban on smoking in Germany. At that time smoking was the norm not the exception and virtually everyone smoked. After the war cigarettes were used for a time as currency as they were more valuable than the Reichsmark.
German units in difficult positions were known on occasion to raid British and later American supply convoys and would unload the food, the fuel, the water (in Africa) and the ciggies and chocolate. It was not unusual for a British prisoner to be offered a Player's, Woodbine or Park Drive by his German captor.
2006-12-01 12:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by prakdrive 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a total ban, it seems, but definite restrictions and anti-smoking exhortations and propaganda.
(source: on-line extracts from Robert Proctor's book)
On the other hand it doesn't seem to have taken in North Africa:
"....Once [Hans] von Luck learned that the British had received a month’s supply of cigarettes. He offered to trade a captured officer – who happened to be the heir to the Players cigarette fortune – for one million cigarettes. The British countered with an offer of 600,000. Done, said von Luck. But the Players heir was outraged. He said the ransom was insufficient. He insisted he was worth the million and refused to be exchanged."
Source: Stephen Ambrose, "Pegasus Bridge"
2006-12-01 11:35:37 · answer #4 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is documentary evidence of strong anti smoking legislation by the Nazi part though this resulted in the rates of smoking increasing though smoking within the party and strong taxes against it remained though much of this legislation was anti-semitic in nature and also part of the nazi desire for racial and bodily purity.
2006-12-01 05:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by emread2002 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the film "Max" Hitler comments on how he dislikes smoking as it is bad for the lungs.
http://www.hitler.org/ has a lot of info in Hitler so it may be worth looking there.
2006-12-01 05:53:02 · answer #6 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hitler was like Bernard Montgommery with regards to his fierce opposition to cigarette smoking.It was not banned but frowned upon by the Hitler youth with the emphysis on fitness and within the party itself
2006-12-01 05:53:05 · answer #7 · answered by paul t 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, he didn't ban smoking. He disapproved of women smoking, though, and people were encouraged to tell off women whom they caught smoking.
2006-12-02 03:55:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think that is true. That would have made him ultra unpopular. It would be like coming to power today and deciding to ban mobile phones.
2006-12-01 05:46:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, this is not true. There were even ersatz cigars made from paper soaked in nicotine solution...
2006-12-01 06:39:45 · answer #10 · answered by NC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋