Just before the movie Thank You for Smoking was released, Charlie Rose (PBS) interviewed Christopher Buckley (the author of the original book), Jason Reitman (the script writer and director of the movie), David Sacks (who produced the movie, his first), and Aaron Eckhardt (the actor who played Nick Naylor). I find this interview interesting for a variety of reasons, some of which I will detail here. 1. Buckley notes that Reitman had been screening the movie at college campuses across the country. Reitman recalls one particular showing at the University of California at Berkeley, which he says is an intimidating place to screen a "libertarian film" (more on that later). During the Q & A session (after the film), one older lady stood up and starting berating him for not going after Big Tobacco for doing such evil things. And the students starting booing her until she shut up. Reitman is quite pleased with that response. Why? 2. Elsewhere in the interview, bot