[VRWC_minion]

recently learned that Nazi Germany was the first government to ban smoking in public places.

The American colonies did it long before.

[metesky]

IIRC, some Colonies banned smoking in the public commons, but none banned it in taverns and hostelries, except maybe during the thankfully brief reign of the anti-tobacco zealot James I.

[Clemenza]

The American colonies did it long before.

Smoking bans in colonial America were largely religious in nature. The Quakers have always banned smoking and I believe Pennsylvania had laws against smoking prior to independence.