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PUFF BY PUFF: HOW CIGARETTES WERE EXTINGUISHED FROM PUBLIC LIFE<\/h1>\n

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A few weeks ago, gruesome photos started appearing on cigarette packets to discourage smokers from lighting up. They are a particularly attention-grabbing way of tackling tobacco consumption, but they are certainly not the first approach that has been tried. The history of bans and campaigns against smoking in Germany goes back well into the previous century.<\/b><\/p>\n

The party mood in the gleaming white 1980s apartment has hit rock-bottom. The disappointed host rushes into the kitchen with a tray full of ashtrays and confides in a girlfriend: \u2018Just look: all the cigarettes have only been half-smoked!\u2019 The guests are clearly not impressed with the the ones they\u2019ve been offered. But her friend has an idea. She suddenly opens a cupboard full of bright red cigarette packets. \u2018Here, take these!\u2019 The party has been saved, with all the guests happily smoking away.<\/p>\n

These scenes from an early 90s TV commercial for cigarettes seem grotesque \u2013 and not just because an ad like this would no longer be permitted. Smoking has long since ceased to be the done thing. The ad illustrates the extent to which smoking has disappeared from the public arena in recent decades. People started banishing cigarettes much earlier, however. We have summarised the main milestones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1910\u20131920<\/h2>\n

A cigarette will kill you slowly \u2013 or quickly. Any solider who decided to light up in the trenches of World War I<\/a> was risking certain death, as the embers \u2013 which glowed brightly with every puff \u2013 would attract enemy sharpshooters. Therefore, soldiers were forbidden from smoking in the trenches.<\/p>\n

1930S AND 1940S<\/h2>\n

The National Socialist notion of racial and physical purity gave rise to what was, at the time, the world\u2019s largest anti-smoking movement. It\u2019s key proponent: Adolf Hitler. In spite of propaganda, annual consumption in the German Reich<\/a> rose from 570 to 900 cigarettes per capita between 1932 and 1939.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Nazis hardened their non-smoking policy, with the focus being on the role of \u2018the German woman\u2019, who was seen first and foremost as a mother by the party. Pregnant women were no longer entitled to tobacco coupons, nor were they sold to women under 25.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the 60 largest cities in the German Reich banned smoking in trams in 1941. From July 1943, minors were no longer allowed to smoke in public, whereas the cigarette ration was cut to six cigarettes a day in the military. If solders went with out, they received chocolate or additional food. As a consequence, soldiers and civilians alike smoked much less. From 1945 onwards, the drive for non-smokers subsided. As the German economy began to recover, there was a resurgence in consumer appetite \u2013 and this also extended to smoking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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