According to Proctor, Schairer and Schnigers paper needs to be seen as a political document, a product of the Nazi ideological focus on tobacco as a corrupting force whose elimination would serve the cause of racial hygiene. The Nazi agenda was centered on the idea of establishing and maintaining a German Aryan master race that was free of illness or impurity, and tobacco was just one of the many influences that could weaken the so-called bermensch
Lung cancer is most often cited, but smoking, even light, also increases the risks of cancers of the mouth , throat , esophagus , and bladder
Existing literature on the relationship between smoking and specific health outcomes is prolific, including meta-analyses, cohort studies and casecontrol studies analyzing the risk of outcomes such as lung cancer 5,6,7 , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) 8,9,10 and ischemic heart disease 11,12,13,14 due to smoking
Its well-documented that adults with depression are more likely to smoke than adults without depression, but what of the wider feeling of general hopelessness that were living through
Next to the soldier's left heel is the 'CLUB' symbol, similar to that used in a card deck