Steve,

I haven't seen anything in print, but I can tell you that I've seen a system
that every two months had to have the memory SIMMs removed, cleaned
re-inserted to run properly.  It seems that the two people who operated the
system were heavy smokers. Yuck! (just a personal comment, not meant to
offend any TechNet smokers)

I believe that some of the same "problems" can be found in computers that
are in environments that have stuff that can condense on electronic.  It
makes working on the innards no fun.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 12:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] Cigarette Smoke and Computers...


Hi all!!

I've got a friend runs a company that provides computer systems and sets-up
networks for small businesses, who asked me if I knew of anything documented
about cigarette smoke damaging computers.

He said that he sees problems all the time that he can relate to cigarette
smoke damage. For instance; the tar and nicotine sticks to everything which
attracts dust and contaminates to the insides, not to much of a problem on
the boards, but the optical drives get hammered. He'd like to be able to
show
something documented instead of just him saying it, and asked if I knew of
anything documented...I'm gonna search at lunchtime, but I thought I'd also
ask the experts...

Thanks!

-Steve Gregory-

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