So much smoking...

Ah! But in the alternate universe, smoking doesn't cause cancer!

Back in the early 1960s, the connection between lung cancer and smoking had yet to be proved (thanks to the determined doctoring and suppression of evidence by the tobacco companies) and it was far more widespread than it is today, to the extent that so many people did it that it was seen as being perfectly normal. As one who grew up in the 50s and 60s, the amount of smoking in the show doesn't seem at all excessive to me for the time.

Let's take it as a granted that Americans were heavier smokers in the 30s to 40s. If the Nazis won WWII, they would impart many aspects of Nazism and the German aesthetic into American society. However, its unlikely that they could remove all aspects of American society from culture to habits. Its more likely that the Nazis choose which aspects of American life, history and culture that were most important to remove to preserve the Nazi identity with limited to no resistance. Smoking is probably an aspect that was not important and permitted rather than creating another layer of prohibition that they'd have to police when its existence has no to minimal impact on their social reprogramming of American society.

As a result, smoking as a habit continued in this alternative history continuity in a manner consistent with that of reality in 1950s/1960s America.

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I'm not kidding. I just started quitting smoking two weeks ago and watching this show. It's really bad for someone quitting, plus all the red wine and good food. This show gives me major munchies...

Not really. Smoking was normal in the 60's, even in the doctors office lol.... Plus ever go to Asia like Japan, South Korea or Japan? people smoke like chimneys...

So much smoking today even but just not on tv. Get over it hunny. Smoking has been around for since the beginning of time. Smokers know it's bad for them the same as you know eating that quarter pounder with cheese with stop your heart. Lol!!!!!!

I grew up in New York City during the 60s. Most of my family members smoked like chimneys. There were cigarette ads everywhere... roadside billboards, newspapers, tv commercials, the TV guide itself. My grandmother used to clip cigarette coupons from Good Housekeeping and Family Circle magazines. Actors on the silver screen and on television smoked. Talk show hosts and their guests smoked. One of my older cousins (a rare non-smoker) used to complain about one of her college professors who smoked as he lectured, and many of her fellow students smoked as they took notes, so she and her clothes always reeked of cigarette smoke. To me it seemed as if 8 out of 10 people were smokers in the 60s, and they smoked everywhere... cars, airplanes, bars, restaurants, workplaces, the beach, funeral homes. The seats in movie theaters had ashtrays built into them, as did scoring tables in bowling alleys. My pediatrician smoked in his office. There were no warning messages on cigarette packs back then, so most people believed the only drawback to heavy smoking was waking up congested and coughing their heads off. These days smoking is the exception, but in the 60s it was actually the norm.