You were considering the assistent was joking..!
He probably was serious .... as HE smoked all the shop's stock of cigarettes that (accordingly to their warnings) caused brain damage. Back to our business: I personally would not be happy to find out that the the risk analysis made for my "possible harmfull product" was made up by a smoking safety engineer! Both for the brain damage part, and for the blatant demonstration of his poor professional capabilities..... ======================================================================== Please not that this message is meant as humour and not as a personal insult, and was not meant to degrade any individual or 2-letter company. ======================================================================== Gert Gremmen From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Gibling, Vic Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:07 AM To: EMC-PSTC (E-mail) Subject: More profound than a joke In the UK cigarette packaging includes a large information message indicating the health risks associated with using the product. The following dialogue would have been funny had it not been true. "Could I have a packet of 20 cigarettes please?", the man asked. "What would you like?" the assistant replied, " Those that kill you with lung cancer or those that give chronic heart problems?" "Mmmm. I take those that can harm the baby in the womb." Was the man matching the assistants humour/sarcasms? OR Was he ignoring the warnings, it's not going to happen to him? OR Was he making a rational risk assessment based on the information provided by the manufacturer? Vic Gibling e2v technologies Ltd This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
