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{{Short description|Anti-tobacco institute in Nazi Germany}}
The '''Institute for the Struggle against the Dangers of Tobacco'''{{efn|Also translated into English as the '''Scientific Institute for the Research into the Hazards of Tobacco'''<ref name="ZimEggHoss">{{cite journal |last1=Zimmermann |first1=Susanne |last2=Egger |first2=Matthias |last3=Hossfeld |first3=Uwe |author2-link=Matthias Egger |title=Commentary: Pioneering research into smoking and health in Nazi Germany— The 'Wissenschaftliches Institut zur Erforschung der Tabakgefahren' in Jena |journal=[[International Journal of Epidemiology]] |date=February 2001 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=35–37 |doi=10.1093/ije/30.1.35 |pmid=11171847 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/30.1.35 |issn=1464-3685}}</ref>}} ({{lang-de|Wissenschaftliches Institut zur Erforschung der Tabakgefahren}}<ref name="ZimEggHoss" />) was set up at the [[University of Jena]] in 1942. It was one of the first scientific institutes to discover the [[Health effects of tobacco|dangers of smoking tobacco]], including the link between smoking and [[lung cancer]]. However, due to its relationship with the ruling [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]] (it was supported in part by [[Adolf Hitler]]'s funds), its work was not taken seriously after the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=British Medical Journal Publishing Group |author1-link=British Medical Journal Publishing Group |title=Smoking and death |journal=[[The BMJ]] |date=11 February 1995 |volume=310 |issue=6976 |pages=396 |doi=10.1136/bmj.310.6976.396 |pmid=7866221 |pmc=2548770 |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/310/6976/396.1.full |issn=0959-8138}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=G. Davey |last2=Ströbele |first2=S. A. |last3=Egger |first3=M. |author1-link=George Davey Smith |author2-link= |author3-link=Matthias Egger |title=Cigarette Smoking and Health Promotion in Nazi Germany |journal=[[Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health]] |date=1997 |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=208–210 |doi=10.1136/jech.51.2.208 |jstor=25568443 |pmid=9196655 |pmc=1060448 |issn=0143-005X}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Karacs |first1=Imre |title=Revealed: how Nazis stubbed out smoking |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/revealed-how-nazis-stubbed-out-smoking-1120003.html |work=[[The Independent]] |date=17 September 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Skrabanek |first1=Petr |author1-link=Petr Skrabanek |title=False Premises, False Promises |date=2000 |publisher=Tarragon Press for the Skrabanek Foundation |isbn=978-1-870781-11-4 |page=xxiii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQUKAQAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Davey Smith |first1=George |author1-link=George Davey Smith |title=Lifestyle, health, and health promotion in Nazi Germany |journal=[[The BMJ]] |date=18 December 2004 |volume=329 |issue=7480 |pages=1424–1425 |doi=10.1136/bmj.329.7480.1424 |pmid=15604167 |pmc=535959 |issn=0959-8138}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Davey-Smith |first1=George |last2=Egger |first2=Matthias |author1-link=George Davey Smith |author2-link=Matthias Egger|title=The first reports on smoking and lung cancer – why are they consistently ignored?|journal=[[Bulletin of the World Health Organization]] |date=October 2005 |volume=83 |issue=10 |page=800 |url=https://www.scielosp.org/article/ssm/content/raw/?resource_ssm_path=/media/assets/bwho/v83n10/v83n10a20.pdf |publisher=[[World Health Organization]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aboul-Enein |first1=Basil |title=The anti-tobacco movement of Nazi Germany: a historiographical re-examination |journal=International Electronic Journal of Health Education |date=1 January 2012 |volume=15 |pages=166–173 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A331687527/HRCA}}</ref>

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== See also ==
*[[Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany]]

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