[freeeee]

fascists and communists couldn't care less about smoking bans

The Nazi's were very interested in controlling the lives of Germans. They were told not to smoke and "that eating is not a personal matter" (sorry I can't find the source for that one), for the good of the fatherland of course.

While death camps certainly were the worst features of the Nazis, there is much more to fascism than that. They strongly held that individualism was a threat to their way of life, they held that Germans were cogs in the big machine. Fascism wouldn't be fascism without collectivism. And collectivism means that nothing is a personal matter.

[Modernman]

The Nazi's were very interested in controlling the lives of Germans. They were told not to smoke and "that eating is not a personal matter" (sorry I can't find the source for that one), for the good of the fatherland of course.

Interesting. This had more to do with Hitler's whacky clean-living ideas than anything else. Plus, even in terms of fascist systems, the Nazis were extremist (or, extremist extremists). This wasn't really something espoused by the "average" fascist system.

[Protagoras]

Thanks. It wasn't worth it to me to educate a beet.