![]() ![]() Members of the SA were expected to exclusively smoke Sturm Cigarette Company cigarettes. The latter one was the most expensive brand.Ĭoercion tactics were used to encourage the sale of these cigarettes. The factory operated under the umbrella name ‘ Sturm Zigaretten’ it produced four brands: Trommler, Alarm, Sturm and Neue Front. So popular, in fact, that by 1929, the SA decided to set up their own cigarette company in order to create a line of revenue. Smoking cigarettes became a mass phenomenon after World War I and the interwar years. However, due to the cigarette’s addictive nature, it created one fact that the Nazis couldn’t ignore-the revenue (ie money). As well as methods to make the cigarettes less tasteful by injecting chemicals into the cigarettes. The campaign announced that cigarettes were the enemy of the people and included posters, lectures, psychological counselling, and nicotine gums. After those findings, Germany initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement. In 1939, German scientists were the first to identify the link between smoking and lung cancer in the first epidemiological study. Hitler hated smoking and had been a smoker himself but had stopped at a young age. ![]() However, he broke those principles-time and time again. As the leader of his country, he always portrayed himself as someone with principles. Something that always fascinated me (for lack of a better word) about Hitler was the double standards he applied. ![]()
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