Hitler Vs Tobacco

Interesting; sharing as this is perhaps the first time I am coming across something good that Hitler and his Nazi Party were involved in!

One thing you might not know about Hitler: he was a rabid opponent of smoking. German scientists were among the first to study the links between tobacco use and lung disease, and the Nazi regime aggressively sought to suppress tobacco use. In addition to implementing high tobacco taxes, Hitler banned smoking in German universities, government buildings, and Nazi party offices. After 1942, restaurants weren't allowed to sell smokes to female customers. But when the Nazis fell, their bans fell with them . After the party's 1945 collapse, cigarettes actually became an unofficial currency in Germany's war-ravaged economy.

Source: CNN

The buzz that Hitler was a vegetarian and a teetotaler are myths however!


Comment by a friend: 'Then, I bet he forced the Jews to smoke!'


Response to above comment:

Thanks to the Ministry of Science and Education, and the Reich Health Office, posters were produced depicting smoking as the typically despicable habit of Jews, jazz musicians, Gypsies, Indians (!!!), homosexuals, blacks, communists, capitalists, cripples, intellectuals (!) and harlots. Zealous lobbyists descended into schools terrifying children with tales of impotence and racial impurity.

One particularly vile individual, Karl Astel -- upstanding president of Jena University, poisonous anti-Semite, euthanasia fanatic, SS officer, war criminal and tobacco-free Germany enthusiast -- liked to walk up to smokers and tear cigarettes from their unsuspecting mouths. (He committed suicide when the war ended, more through disappointment than fear of hanging.) It comes as little surprise to discover that the phrase "passive smoking" (Passivrauchen) was coined not by contemporary American admen, but by Fritz Lickint, the author of the magisterial 1100-page Tabak und Organismus ("Tobacco and the Organism"), which was produced in collaboration with the German Anti -Tobacco League!

As I said earlier, he smoked the Jews to hell rather than forcing them to smoke! As with everything else, they went overboard with whatever they were doing. Is there a valuable lesson for us here? Even good things cannot be forced into anybody beyond a certain degree lest it backfires! As you kept repeating in your speeches, T T T - Things Take Time! Let people burn their hands...let it hurt...may be hurt like hell...let them realize on their own what is good and what is bad... let them learn from experience!

We all know a certain someone who can change the world by a wave of His hand, don't we? 

He doesn't! Perhaps because He knows that it is counterproductive? 


T T T ! and there's infinite amount of time...there's no limit to the number of births and deaths an individual can go through! :-)