H-kqge said:Propaganda alert! More anti-smoking shenanigans.
Speaking of shenanigans, I was reading some comments about the anti-smoking agenda on a blog that was provided by a whole leaf tobacco company. One of the bloggers mentioned a book by Robert N. Proctor named "The Nazi War on Cancer" (The full blog remarks can be read at _http://www.leafonly.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=267).
Some of the bloggers quotes:
Robert N. Proctor, in his new book "The Nazi War on Cancer" published by Princeton University Press turns a scholarly eye toward the question of
science and public health in a fascist context. At a moment in history where we have entered a phase of health hysteria, it is timely for scholars
to be doing this sort of examination.
"Robert Proctor is an outstanding historian of science and an outstanding historian of the Third Reich. By establishing Nazism's pioneering
contributions in the areas of preventive medicine, environmentalism, and public health, he takes us right to the heart of the most difficult
questions in the analysis of fascism. His treatment of smoking and cancer will be a revelation. This book troubles the politics and ethics of
historical interpretation in the very best ways."--Geoff Eley, author of Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change
after Bismarck.
"Racily and wittily written, Proctor's interesting book is a brilliant demonstration of how marginal the Nazi past has become to contemporary
health issues." --Michael Burleigh, author of Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide.
Think about this -- think long and hard. Whether you smoke or not, each time you support anti-tobacco, its philosophy and mentality, what it
stands for, the prohibition to smoke; when you feel "safe" and "relieved" because smokers are persecuted and kicked out of their rightful places,
you support the return of a cancer that took an uncountable number of lives to uproot -- and it will not stop with tobacco.
Do you think that it is worth it, just because you don't like the nice smell of a cigarette? The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-45
Robert N Proctor
Historians and epidemiologists have only recently begun to explore the Nazi anti-tobacco movement. Germany had the world's strongest anti
smoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s,encompassing bans on smoking in public spaces, bans on advertising,restrictions on tobacco
rations for women, and the world's most refined tobacco epidemiology, linking tobacco use with the already evident epidemic of lung cancer.
The anti-tobacco campaign must be understood against the backdrop of the Nazi quest for racial and bodily purity, which also motivated many
other public health efforts of the era.
Medical historians in recent years have done a great deal to enlarge our understanding of medicine and public health in Nazi Germany. We know
that about half of all doctors joined the Nazi party and that doctors played a major part in designing and administering the Nazi programmes of
forcible sterilisation, "euthanasia," and the industrial scale murder of Jews and gypsies.(1) (2) Much of our present day concern for the abuse of
humans used in experiments stems from the extreme brutality many German doctors showed towards concentration camp prisoners exploited
to advance the cause of German military medicine.(3)
Tobacco in the Reich
One topic that has only recently begun to attract attention is the Nazi anti-tobacco movement.(4-6) Germany had the world's strongest anti
smoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s,supported by Nazi medical and military leaders worried that tobacco might prove a hazard to
the race.(1) (4)Many Nazi leaders were vocal opponents of smoking. Anti-tobacco activists pointed out that whereas Churchill, Stalin, and
Roosevelt were all fond of tobacco, the three major fascist leaders of Europe-Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco-were all non-smokers.(7) Hitler was
the most adamant,characterising tobacco as "the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man for having been given hard liquor." At one point
the Fuhrer even suggested that Nazism might never have triumphed in Germany had he not given up smoking.(8)
German smoking rates rose dramatically in the first six years of Nazi rule, suggesting that the propaganda campaign launched during those
early years was largely ineffective.(4) (5) German smoking rates rose faster even than those of France, which had a much weaker anti-tobacco
campaign. German per capita tobacco use between 1932 and 1939 rose from 570 to 900 cigarettes a year, whereas French tobacco
consumption grew from 570 to only 630 cigarettes over the same period.(9)
Smith et al suggested that smoking may have functioned as a kind of cultural resistance,(4) though it is also important to realise that German
tobacco companies exercised a great deal of economic and political power, as they do today. German anti-tobacco activists frequently
complained that their efforts were no match for the "American style" advertising campaigns waged by the tobacco industry.(10) German cigarette
manufacturers neutralised early criticism-for example, from the SA(Sturm-Abteilung; stormtroops), which manufactured its
own"Sturmzigaretten"-by portraying themselves as early and eager supporters of the regime.(11) The tobacco industry also launched several
new journals aimed at countering anti-tobacco propaganda. In a pattern that would become familiar in the United States and elsewhere after the
second world war, several of these journals tried to dismiss the anti-tobacco movement as "fanatic"and "unscientific." One such journal featured
the German word for science twice in its title (Der Tabak: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der International en Tabakwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft,
founded in 1940).
We should also realise that tobacco provided an important source of revenue for the national treasury. In 1937-8 German national income from
tobacco taxes and tariffs exceeded 1 billion Reichsmarks.(12) By 1941, as a result of new taxes and the annexation of Austria and Bohemia,
Germans were paying nearly twice that. According to Germany's national accounting office, by 1941 tobacco taxes constituted about one twelfth
of the government's entire income.(13) Two hundred thousand Germans were said to owe their livelihood to tobacco-an argument that was
reversed by those who pointed to Germany's need for additional men in its labour force, men who could presumably be supplied from the
tobacco industry.(14)
Culmination of the campaign: 1939-41
German anti-tobacco policies accelerated towards the end of the 1930s,and by the early war years tobacco use had begun to decline. The
Luftwaffe banned smoking in 1938 and the post office did likewise.Smoking was barred in many workplaces, government offices, hospitals,and
rest homes. The NSDAP (National sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) announced a ban on smoking in its offices in 1939, at which time SS
chief Heinrich Himmler announced a smoking ban for all uniformed police and SS officers while on duty.(15) The Journal of the American Medical
Association that year reported Hermann Goering's decree barring soldiers from smoking on the streets, on marches, and on brief off duty
periods.(16) Sixty of Germany's largest cities banned smoking on street cars in 1941.(17) Smoking was banned in air raid shelters-though some
shelters reserved separate rooms for smokers.(18) During the war years tobacco rationing coupons were denied to pregnant women (and to all
women below the age of 25) while restaurants and cafes were barred from selling cigarettes to female customers.(19) From July 1943 it was
illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to smoke in public.(20) Smoking was banned on all German city trains and buses in 1944, the initiative
coming from Hitler himself,who was worried about exposure of young female conductors to tobacco smoke.(21) Nazi policies were heralded as
marking"the beginning of the end" of tobacco use in Germany.(14)
German tobacco epidemiology by this time was the most advanced in the world. Franz H Muller in 1939 and Eberhard Schairer and Erich
Schoniger in 1943 were the first to use case-control epidemiological methods to document the lung cancer hazard from cigarettes.(22) (23)
Muller concluded that the "extraordinary rise in tobacco use" was "the single most important cause of the rising incidence of lung cancer."(22)
Heart disease was another focus and was not infrequently said to be the most serious illness brought on by smoking.(24) Late in the war
nicotine was suspected as a cause of the coronary heart failure suffered by a surprising number of soldiers on the eastern front. A 1944 report
by an army field pathologist found that all 32 young soldiers whom he had examined after death from heart attack on the front had been
"enthusiastic smokers." The author cited the Freiburg pathologist Franz Buchner's view that cigarettes should be considered "a coronary poison of the first order."(25)
'Our Fuhrer Adolf Hitler drinks no alcohol and does not smoke...His performance at work is incredible...(from Auf der Wacht, 1937)
On 20 June 1940 Hitler ordered tobacco rations to be distributed to the military "in a manner that would dissuade" soldiers from smoking.(24)
Cigarette rations were limited to six per man per day, with alternative rations available for non-smokers(for example, chocolate or extra food).
Extra cigarettes were sometimes available for purchase, but these were generally limited to 50 per man per month and were often unavailableas
during times of rapid advance or retreat. Tobacco rations were denied to women accompanying the Wehrmacht. An ordinance on 3 November
1941 raised tobacco taxes to a higher level than they had ever been (80-95% of the retail price).Tobacco taxes would not rise that high again for
more than a quarter of a century after Hitler's defeat.(26)
Impact of the war and postwar poverty
The net effect of these and other measures (for instance, medical lectures to discourage soldiers from smoking) was to lower tobacco
consumption by the military during the war years. A 1944 survey of 1000 servicemen found that, whereas the proportion of soldiers smoking
had increased (only 12.7% were non-smokers), the total consumption of tobacco had decreased-by just over 14%. More men were smoking (101
of those surveyed had taken up the habit during the war, whereas only seven had given it up) but the average soldier was smoking about a
quarter (23.4%) less tobacco than in the immediate prewar period. The number of very heavy smokers (30 or more cigarettes daily) was down
dramatically-from 4.4% to only 0.3%-and similar declines were recorded for moderately heavy smokers.(24)
Postwar poverty further cut consumption. According to official statistics German tobacco use did not reach prewar levels again until the mid-
1950s. The collapse was dramatic: German per capita consumption dropped by more than half from 1940 to 1950, whereas American
consumption nearly doubled during that period.(6) (9) French consumption also rose, though during the four years of German occupation
cigarette consumption declined by even more than in Germany(9)-suggesting that military conquest had a larger effect than Nazi propaganda.
After the war Germany lost its position as home to the world's most aggressive anti-tobacco science. Hitler was dead but also many of his antitobacco
underlings either had lost their jobs or were otherwise silenced. Karl Aster, head of Jena's Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research (and
rector of the University of Jena and an officer in the SS), committed suicide in his office on the night of 3-4 April 1945.Reich Health Fuhrer
Leonardo Conti, another anti-tobacco activist,committed suicide on 6 October 1945 in an allied prison while awaiting prosecution for his role in
the euthanasia programme. Hans Reiter, the Reich Health Office president who once characterised nicotine as "the greatest enemy of the
people's health" and "the number one drag on the German economy"(27) was interned in an American prison camp for two years, after which he
worked as a physician in a clinic in Kassel, never again returning to public service. Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel, the guiding light behind Thuringia's
antismoking campaign and the man who drafted the grant application for Astel's anti-tobacco institute, was executed on 1 October 1946 for
crimes against humanity. It is hardly surprising that much of the wind was taken out of the sails of Germany's anti-tobacco movement.
The flip side of Fascism Smith et al were correct to emphasise the strength of the Nazi anti smoking effort and the sophistication of Nazi era
tobacco science.(4) The anti smoking science and policies of the era have not attracted much attention, possibly because the impulse behind the
movement was closely attached to the larger Nazi movement.That does not mean, however, that anti smoking movements are inherently
fascist(28); it means simply that scientific memories are often clouded by the celebrations of victors and that the political history of science is
occasionally less pleasant than we would wish.
It seems like the Cs were not kidding about the Nazis' Third Reich being just a trial run for things to come.
07-22-00 A: We wish to review some things first. The concept of a "master race" put forward by the Nazis was merely a 4th density STS effort to create a physical vehicle with the correct frequency resonance vibration for 4th density STS souls to occupy in 3rd density. It was also a "trial run" for planned events in what you perceive to be your future.
It's not easy to break the frequency being created by the anti-smoking agenda today any more than it was during the Third Reich. If it wasn't for the support of this forum many of us would not be able to see the different reasons for the possible motivations behind the agenda.
Although, I can not verify all of the above information it certainly makes me think it could be deja vu.
goyacobol
