Zizek interview

[Carl Remick]

>From: Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com>
>
>Miles:
> > >Second hand smoke is a fairly well documented public health issue.
> > >Do we really need this tortured psychoanalytic explanation for why
> > >people don't want to breathe a cancerous substance?
> > >
> > >Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
>
>Carl Remick:
> > And sometimes it's the anti-tobacco zealots who are blowing smoke.  I
> > flatly do not believe that secondhand smoke constitutes a serious public
> > health threat.
>
>I don't know about secondhand smoke being a serious public
>health threat, but I do know that one of the tortures of the
>earlier part of my long corporate sojourn was sitting in
>meetings and classes where half the people in the room
>smoked.  After an hour or so a dense haze would settle in
>the room, burning my eyes and throat with an effect that
>lasted for hours, sometimes a day or two.

Hmm, smoking is (or was) the best thing about business meetings.  I've 
always been more concerned about the risk of brain damage those meetings 
present.  Concentrated exposure to corporate twaddle causes buzzing in the 
head that persists for decades.  Hazardous stuff.

Carl

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