3. World’s First Anti-Smoking Campaign Was Led By Him
He initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement when German doctors became the pioneers to identify the connection between smoking and lung cancer. He hated tobacco and never touched it for a single time in his later days, whereas he led the world’s first anti-smoking campaign in history, which was also the most powerful anti-smoking movement on the planet, during 1930s. That anti-smoking campaign included banning of smoking in public places and promoting health benefits without tobacco intake. He said, “He does not devour it (the cigarette), it devours him” in one of his anti-smoking ads named “The chain-smoker”. From 1939 to 1945, smoking by his military personnel was also strictly restricted. He also viewed smoking as “decadent” and marked his feeling towards smoking by saying “so many excellent men have been lost to tobacco poisoning.”
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