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Journal Article
On playing the Nazi card
2008
Overview
The three main fascist leaders of Europe (Hitler, Franco and Mussolini) all eschewed tobacco, whereas Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill all were avid smokers. 2 The tobacco industry finds such facts useful, which is why the front group FOREST (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) once offered my 1988 book, Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis, for sale as \"vital\" for understanding \"the statist and paternalist world view of the Nazis\" and \"the health fascism of contemporary anti-smoking and 'health' lobbies\". In a forthcoming book 6 I list some of the many expressions used by the American industry to denigrate the science demonstrating tobacco hazards, including: \"Astounding\", \"unwarranted, absurd\" (1945); \"colored by prejudice\" (1945); \"crude experimentation\", \"mere opinion\" (1945); \"at best, only suggestive\" (1955); \"nothing new\" (1957); \"opinions of some statisticians\" (1957); \"biased and unproved charges\" (1959); \"scare stories\" (1959); \"time-worn and much-criticized statistical charges\" (1959); \"extreme and unwarranted conclusions\" (1959); \"foggy thinking\" (1962); \"a rehash of previously inconclusive findings\" (1962); \"the easy answer to a complex problem\" (1962); \"fanciful theories\" (1964); \"propaganda blast\" (1964); \"statistical volleyball\" (1965); \"utterly without factual support\" (1965); \"exaggerations and misstatements of fact\" (1967); \"guilt by association\" (1968); \"'guesses, assumptions, and suspicions\" (1968); \"worse than meaningless\" (1969); \"claptrap\" (1969); \"a bum rap\" (1969); \"colossal blunder\" (1970); \"one of the great scientific hoaxes of our time\" (1970); \"claims of the anti-cigarette forces\" (1971); \"repeated assertion without conclusive proof\" (circa 1971); \"misinformation\" (1972); \"conventional wisdom\" (1974); \"speculations, and conclusions based on speculations\" (1978); \"weak conjectures based on questionable assumptions\" (1979); \"unproved charges, exaggerated conclusions and largely one-sided interpretations of statistical data\" (1979); \"half the story\" (1981); \"dogmatic conclusions\" (1982); \"Orwellian 'Official Science',\" \"scientific malpractice\" (1984); \"outrageous claims\" (1995); \"statistical jiggery pokery\" (1995); \"bogus statistics\" (1995); etc.
