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Premier Gary Doer's Manitoba will resemble Adolf Hitler's Germany if the often-discussed public smoking ban is put in place across the province. Many would consider that view of Warren Klass to be radical, but the president of FORCES (Fight Ordinances and Restrictions to Control and Eliminate Smoking) Canada is not backing down. "Hitler tried the same kind of social engineering for his secure and sanitary utopia Ñ a smoke-free Germany," he told The Winnipeg Sun this week. The Winnipeg resident said the Nazis used "propaganda" to demonize tobacco and put in place smoking bans. But that just led to Germany ending up with the highest rate of smoking in recorded history, said Klass. An all-party provincial committee investigating a possible provincial smoking ban will meet for the final time tomorrow, and then make a recommendation to the government. According to a Winnipeg Free Press report, Opposition members on the committee say the majority of people they've heard from want a smoke-free Manitoba. "They are almost begging you," Tory MLA Denis Rocan told the newspaper.
