Reply #21: second hand smoke in humans [View All]

[NJCher]

What happens when that smoke enters the human lung is that it beats down the cilia with its stickiness. That's one reason smokers get respiratory diseases so much more than nonsmokers.

The cilia are like a field of grass, with each tip of grass attracting particulate matter and impurities. Cigarette smoke prevents the cilia from performing their function.

I used to be a smoking cessation facilitator. A week or so after smokers quit, the cilia would start lifting their little heads and saying, hey, time to get rid of this junk. Smokers who maintained their freedom from the cigarette would be astonished and disgusted at what they were coughing up.

I'll stop here, just like I would when they would when they would initiate these discussions with me.

So computer cards don't have cilia. That stuff just stays stuck, and it would be impossible to clean it off some of the microcircuitry. I think, therefore, that Apple is probably right to void the warranty in this case.


Cher