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| Click image to enlargify From Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 34-35 |
Jay's thoughts: Not a lot to say, except for this: Next time you are forced to stand outside of a pub or your office to smoke, think about these images as people walk past you. Brought down to brass tacks, there isn't much difference between a religious choice or upbringing, and a lifestyle choice. The Nazis were masters of "denormalisation." If you didn't fit into the current construct of their idealised society, then they terrorised you, put you on public display for the people to mock and laugh at you, took everything you owned and separated you from friends and family, interred you at concentration camps, and having little use for your ragged, worn-out body, summarily executed you. How is this any different from how smokers are currently being treated right now? Or how we see public health and others treating people who drink or eat too much? I truly fail to see much difference here -- of course, we're not at the summarily executed stage ... yet.
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