Nowatorstwo w nauce epidemiologii i zdrowia publicznego czy propaganda? – O podstawach antynikotynowej polityki w nazistowskich Niemczech
Innovation in Epidemiology and Public Health Science, or Propaganda? On the Foundations of Anti-Smoking Policy in Nazi Germany

Summary/Abstract: The German government in the 1930s began to combat the smoking habit. Measures to reduce nicotinism were carried out both in the purely administrative sphere, such as through various consumption bans, but also through extensive propaganda efforts. These decisions were to be based in part on the actions of several German scholars who published studies linking consumption of tobacco products to cancer. The purpose of the article is to try to answer the question of how much of these studies were actually evidence of the harms of smoking, characterized by scientific rigor, and how much were support for the propaganda machine of the time, fighting tobacco for cultural and aesthetic reasons. In the article, I do not make a normative assessment of these activities.

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