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Not directly related but here's a crazy thing I ran into recently - Hitler and the Nazi's basically popularised Anti-Smoking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
by harryf 6y ago
Not directly related but here's a crazy thing I ran into recently - Hitler and the Nazi's basically popularised Anti-Smoking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_...
> The German movement was the most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world during the 1930s and early 1940s
> Adolf Hitler's personal distaste for tobacco and the Nazi reproductive policies were among the motivating factors behind the Nazi campaigns against smoking.
> Even by the end of the 20th century, the anti-smoking movement in Germany had not attained the influence of the Nazi anti-smoking campaign.
Ironically it may have had the opposite effect long term, at least in Germany...
> It has been argued that the Nazi anti-tobacco campaigns delayed effective nicotine addiction reduction measures by decades. At the end of the 20th century, the anti-tobacco campaign in Germany was unable to approach the level of the Nazi-era climax in the years 1939–41, and German tobacco health research was described by Robert N. Proctor as "muted". Modern Germany has some of Europe's least restrictive tobacco control policies, and more Germans both smoke and die of it in consequence, which also leads to higher public health costs.
- andromeduck 6y agoHis campaign was also one of the first to use airplanes to campaign, flying city to city to hold rallies often in the same day which made people feel closer to him. https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler3.htm https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler...
- mbroncano 6y agoThey also popularized decaf https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/decaf-coffee-nazi-party https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/decaf-coffee-nazi-part...
- FeeJai 6y agoBan smoking and caffeine and put populations on Methamphetamine. Interesting twist
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoPervitin für Sie und Ihn!
- thu2111 6y agoAlso, Hitler was big into animal rights. Germany's modern day animal protection laws are largely still derived from Nazi era laws.
- haunter 6y agoThey also created GEMA which is the main collective rights management association in Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization)
- wanderingjew 6y agoHacker News: "yes, but what about the good things Hitler did?"