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“Nicotine Nazis strike again”: a brief analysis of the use of Nazi rhetoric in attacking tobacco control advocacy
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- Published on: 7 October 2008Identification of Jewish Ghetto in RomeShow More
The authors's Figure 2 identifies the 'smokers' zone' overlaid on a map of modern Rome as resembling "the location of the Jewish ghetto during the Third Reich."
In fact, a Jewish community has existed in Rome for over two thousand years. In 1555 Pope Paul IV created a walled-ghetto for Jews as one of a series of anti-semitic measures. The walls were torn down in 1870 when Italy was unified as a single nation, lea...
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