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German NAZI Resistance puts other countries to shame Submitted by Marcus on Tue, 2008-03-04 20:35.
I am talking about German resistance to a newly introduced law against smoking in public places. The UK guardian reports that German bar owners have come up with ingenious solutions to get around the ban. "Refusing to face reality, some pub and club owners have even tried to turn their establishments into member-owning smoking clubs, like Hamburg's Association for the Preservation of Smoke Culture and Advancement of Tolerance. The owner of the Mouse Trap pub in Schleswig-Holstein has lodged an application to turn it into a church. 'I consider the burning of tobacco to be a religious practice,' said Dirk Bruckner, who already boasts around 400 followers." The motivation for the great public resistance is a dislike of all things NAZI, of which the German smoking public have a passionate reprehension against. "The reason for Germans' refusal to take lying down a law that has now become the norm even in European nations that have traditionally taken pride in their subversiveness - such as Italy, Ireland and Scotland - is repeatedly put down to German history. Campaigners for smokers' rights have been quick to draw on the comparison between the recent clampdown and the little-known nationwide tobacco ban introduced by the Nazis in 1941 as part of their quest for bodily and racial purity. While few Germans would dare to point it out publicly, for fear of appearing to praise the Nazi era, some of the most advanced research into the links between tobacco consumption and lung cancer was carried out under the Nazis. Under the supervision of the Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research, the ban was imposed in every public building and public space, including air-raid shelters, with Hitler even personally intervening in 1944 to ensure it was extended to trains and buses in order to protect young female conductors. It was even pointed out that Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were all non-smokers, while the 'evil enemies' - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - all enjoyed a tobacco fix." Good for the German smokers, I say! If only Smokers in other countries with the ban were so determined, maybe there would be change!
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The Germans
Gotta love Germans (sans their government) on this issue, and their attitude toward these things.
"Socialism may be dead, but its corpse is still rotting up the place." -Ayn Rand
Anti-smoking hysteria
Smokefree Coalition Presser
“The cigarette tin is said to be worth $15.00, or around half the cost of a six-pack of this bourbon and cola mix. It’s an expensive giveaway, and I smell the yellowed fingers of the tobacco industry behind it.
“The industry has an established history of cleverly evading controls on their advertising and labelling. This promotion is obviously timed to coincide with the new health warnings on packs and provide a way of covering them.
“Young people are the most frequent purchasers of cheap, ready-to-drink spirit mixes, and they are an extremely important market. Big Tobacco needs to recruit them to replace older smokers who are quitting or dying off.”
Do I need to point out the hysterical, illogical and absurd conclusions drawn by these nico-nazis?
What an interesting article
Yes, Marcus, if smoker's would learn to stub their butts down the throats of the gloating, condescending, chalk monitors who rub the blackboards of the anti-smoking lobby's, they would indeed be able to light up their world.