Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a smoker from 1897 - 1924, and had typical smoker symptoms. To refute that fact, a recently-invented myth is being circulated by tobacco apologists that he was a non-smoker! Over a half century after his death, this myth has been invented by people with an axe to grind. They hope that the truth has been forgotten, they hope people will buy into their disinformation.
When Adolf was a boy age eight, about 1897, the same year Iowa and Tennessee were banning cigarettes, he was in school in Lambeck. And he was smoking. Smoking at age 8! In school even! This is a matter of public record! The little boy was being allowed to smoke despite the near 300 years of knowledge of tobacco's role in brain damage! and other adverse effects. The public and the government were ignoring the medical knowledge -- were ignoring the urgent necessity to ban tobacco.