Social fascism scoring points again in Germany

Originally Posted by Skybird

Finally! I applaud you. You are the first having taken note of this little ironic implication that I inidrectly hinted at and which maybe was a bit too subtle this time (or that got missed because I also used the term before, in other contexts).

The Nazis campaigned strongly against smoking, and the German medical research on the negative effects of smoking was the most modern and enlightened of it'S time, the data collected was superior to other states' projects on examining health implications from tobacco - if they even ran such projects. Smoking was prohibited by law in certain public places and public transport.

Never let the facts get in the way of good propaganda:

....in 1840, the Prussian authorities re-instated a ban on smoking in public places. Thus, state restrictions on tobacco long predated the Nazi era

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2441844/