You would think that if someone saw what cigarette smoking does to a
person's lungs, what effect it would have on some of the devices in a
computer...

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Roger M. Stoops, C.I.D., PCB Designer

p.s.:  In 1997, it was estimated that 170,000 people in the USA would
contract lung cancer. Of those, 160,000 would die from cancer.  Sobering
statistics.



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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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