“Brother national socialist, do you know that your Führer is against smoking and thinks that every German is responsible to the whole people for all his deeds and omissions, and does not have the right to damage his body with drugs?”
“Nazi Germany was governed by a health-conscious political elite bent on European conquest and genocidal extermination.” The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor.
In 1939, German scientists presented the first epidemiological study linking tobacco use and cancer. German research also reported the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
Nazi Germany launched an anti-smoking campaign that limited advertising, discouraged smoking in the workplace, and banned it in cinemas and schools. Men in uniform could not smoke and women could not buy cigarettes in public places.