Achtung! Thank you for smoking

Do you smoke? No?

The first tobacco ban was imposed by the Nazi Party under direct orders from Adolf Hitler. (Follow the Wikipedia entry to footnote 1).

This entry was written by Marsilio Facino and posted on Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 10:06 pm and filed under American Politics, Amusing, Culture, Legal & Justice, Media & Communication. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

Comments (4) to “Achtung! Thank you for smoking”

  1. bob wrote:

    Hey you should have the right to smoke until your lungs explode… but you DON’T have the right to pollute the air I’M breathing. Why should your right to kill yourself supersede my right to breath clean, smoke-free air? Guess what? It DOESN’T. So you can make all the retarded connections to nazism you want but the fact remains that non-smokers’ rights to NOT smoke take precedent. You wanna smoke? Go ahead! Just do it where YOU are the only one you’re harming.

    Posted on 31-Jan-08 at 11:34 pm | Permalink

  2. Charles Anthony wrote:

    In 1915, the first state anti-marijuana law was passed in Utah.

    Marsilio,
    You are completely wrong.

    Posted on 01-Feb-08 at 6:08 am | Permalink

  3. kaqchikel wrote:

    The imaginary world that George Orwell created in his _1984_ has become synonymous with oppression and totalitarianism. But even in Oceania people could smoke! They had crappy tobacco, but they were allowed to possess, transport, smoke and even offer tobacco to others.

    Posted on 01-Feb-08 at 7:46 am | Permalink

  4. Abattoir wrote:

    Marsilio, are you suggesting a conclusion based solely on the origin of the tobacco ban, rather than its current meaning or context?

    Rather ironic, considering your last post provided the definition of the term ‘genetic fallacy’ for everyone.

    Posted on 01-Feb-08 at 10:09 am | Permalink

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