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Article: Put that in your pipe: as an act of rebellion against political correctness, pipe smoking is hard to beat.
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- Reason
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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THE END OF THE LAST century saw the birth of two Germans who are among the most famous individuals in history: Adolf Hitler, the bloodthirsty dictator, and Albert Einstein, the peace-loving scientific genius. Both men held strong views about smoking, and it is worth examining their opinions as we approach the end of the current century. This is especially true in light of the bills pending in Congress that would ban smoking in buildings open to the public, raise tobacco taxes by huge percentages, and regulate tobacco as a drug.
Hitler was a zealot about many things, so it is not surprising that he was an extremist on the subject of smoking, which he considered vile ...