Article ID: CBB815647505

Inhaling Democracy: Cigarette Advertising and Health Education in Post-war West Germany, 1950s–1975 (2015)

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the West German government was faced with the challenge of addressing a damaging health behaviour, smoking, in the context of an emerging late modern democracy, when the precedent for addressing that behaviour was set in the Nazi past. This paper details the two-pronged approach which the government took: seeking restrictions on cigarette advertising, whilst educating young people to adopt positive health behaviours in the face of pressure to smoke. This approach can be understood in the social and economic context of the time: an economic commitment to the social market economy worked against restrictions on the sale of cigarettes; whilst concerns about past authoritarian structures prompted the health authorities to seek novel ways of addressing smoking, emphasising choice. In a nuanced way, post-war anti-smoking strategies were a response to West Germany's National Socialist past, but more importantly, a signal of an increasingly international outlook.

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Authors & Contributors
Marshall, Thomas R.
Starks, Tricia
Proctor, Robert N.
Gregory Wood
Milov, Sarah
Matthew Kohrman
Concepts
Public health
Smoking
Tobacco
Medicine
Tobacco industry
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
West Germany
United States
Japan
China
Netherlands
Russia
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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