I’m watching a program on the History Channel that documents the non-smoking laws/rules instituted by Hitler in the 1940s. Apparently German scientists figured out that smoking was bad for you (duh?) about a decade before anyone else. Hitler banned smoking in his presence, as well as on public properties. There was also quiet a bit of propaganda against smoking.
The Nazi view was that a German’s body belonged to the State, and that polluting or abusing it was damaging public property. Individual rights be damned. I’m sure glad that kind of thing doesn’t happen here.
