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"Hitler embarked on a program of tripling taxes on cigarettes, draconian restrictions on indoor smoking, and a goofy, largely anti-semitic, propaganda campaign against smoking...Nazi Germany passed a law forbidding Jews from smoking in 1938. Jews were denied coupons nessesary to purchase cigarettes, which was later extended to pregnant women and to all women under 25. Images of second-hand smoke invariably contained images of dollar signs and Stars of David. Nazi anti-smoking posters contained carictatures of Hasidic Jews trying to lure an "Aryan" youth to take up smoking. Smoking was depicted in posters as the vice of 'capitalists, Jews,Africans,degenerate intellectuals,and loose women.'"

"Smoking was banned in many workplaces, government offices, hospitals and rest homes. The NSDAP(National sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) announced a ban on smoking in its offices in 1939, at which time SS chief Heinrich Himmler announced a smoking ban for all uniformed police and SS officers while on duty. The Journal of the American Medical Association that year reported Herman Goering's decree barring soldiers from smoking on the streets, on marches and on brief off-duty periods. Sixty of Germany's largest cities banned smoking on streetcars in 1941. Smoking was also banned in air raid shelters, though some shelters reserved seperate rooms for smokers. During the war years tobacco rationing coupons were denied to all pregnant women (and to all women below the age of 25) while restaurants and cafes were barred from selling cigarettes to female customers. From July 1943 it was illegial for anyone under the age of 18 to smoke in public. Smoking was banned on all German city trains and buses in 1944, the initiative coming from Hitler himself, who worried about exposure of young female conductors to tobacco smoke. Nazi policies were heralded as marking 'the beginning of the end of tobacco use in Germany.' They embarked upon a propaganda campaign which attempted to stir up anti-smoking hysteria..."