WI Nazi anti-smoking campaign worked

What would happen if the Nazi anti-smoking campaign worked, instead of what happend in OTL when it just wasn't taken seriously by the German population?

I know it would not affect the geo-political landscape of the world, with über healthy Nazi soldiers winning WW2, but what I am interested in is its affect on the world of medicine. How would the world be different if smoking was proved to be a health hazard 30 years before OTL?
 

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What would happen if the Nazi anti-smoking campaign worked, instead of what happend in OTL when it just wasn't taken seriously by the German population?

I know it would not affect the geo-political landscape of the world, with über healthy Nazi soldiers winning WW2, but what I am interested in is its affect on the world of medicine. How would the world be different if smoking was proved to be a health hazard 30 years before OTL?

Probably the opposite - if it was really successful and prominent, it would be associated with the Nazis and thus everyone would ignore doctors for a long time on account of Godwin's Law.
 
Probably the opposite - if it was really successful and prominent, it would be associated with the Nazis and thus everyone would ignore doctors for a long time on account of Godwin's Law.

What?! You don't have a light, and you don't smoke?! Well, you know who else refused to smoke cigarettes?! :D
 
Probably the opposite - if it was really successful and prominent, it would be associated with the Nazis and thus everyone would ignore doctors for a long time on account of Godwin's Law.

Thande

I remember an article, think it was in New Scientist a few years back, which basically argued pretty much that case. That the programme had a measure of success but after the war the tobacco industry painted it as Nazi propaganda to discredit the data involved.

Steve
 
And now much of the "progressive" west finds itself involve in another similar trend:rolleyes:


Maybe such would deter such movements from springing up later. While people will get that smoking is not good for them, laws against smoking are frowned upon.

Then again, if the German effort succeeded, and the Nazi regime saw more success generally, then its absurdities may be still more popular by 2008:mad:
 
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