Reply #3: I think the comparison holds [View All]

The Nazis were highly anti-smoking, and ran the first publicly funded anti-smoking campaign in history. The earliest scientific research linking smoking to lung cancer was carried out by Nazis (which is why the American scientific establishment was slow to accept it after the war). It's not that anti-smokers are nazis (note lower case n), it's that the Nazis (by and large) were anti-smokers.

The point friendly iconoclast is trying to make, I think, is that you can't dismiss concerns about smoking just because the Nazis happened to share that opinion (and I say that as a smoker myself); and, similarly, you can't dismiss DU'ers pro-RKBA opinions because they happen to be shared by the NRA and a large segment of the GOP.