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Published May. 21, 2008

Give me a click and watch me go all to pieces....... 

This is the expression my son got when he got into my computer to fix it while I was on vacation.  Remember I said my son was going to take my computer home and work on it and get it in tip top shape for me?  Well you guessed it--- I was about to blow up.  He said the motherboard was about to go, whatever that is.  He blames it on my smoking it to death.  I am going to ask my golo friends because they always tell the truth (he he).  Ok???How many out there mess up their computers because they smoke?  I think my son is trying another tactic to stop me smoking.  Do you smoke in your home where you have a computer???  Did it effect and mess up your computer?  I find it hard that I am the only person who could smoke a computer to death....

 

Anyway when I got home I had a Happy mother's day note and there set a new computer (data box) with all my goodies transferred over to it.  It's neat but  I feel bad thinking I caused damage smoking around the other one.  So all you folks is it true.  Does smoking in your home destroy the electronics in your computers, or is my son trying to trick me....



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Hey Patricia! Glad you're home - you have been missed. Sadly enough I think the answer to your question is YES, that "second hand" smoke harms a computer and you are guilty!! Okay, gal, I am too - bad habit I can't shake just yet. So, our computers have nasty innards!

I't sounds plauseable. I don't smoke in the house. I hate the way it turns the walls yellow and makes the house stink. I wish I could quit, was easier to quit drinking and drugging!

As I understand it..my husband is the computer expert and I've seen him open up many...smoking can shorten the life significantly. It gums up the fans because the nicotine gets sucked in there with the dust in the air and causes things (such as the fan) to slow down. A slow sticky fan can cause overheating which, yes, can cause the death of the motherboard or video card, or...well you get the point. If you smoke in the house...pull your couch out from the wall and look at the difference in color behind it. That nicotine gets in the computer too.

I don't know about computers, but when I was a teenager back at home, my stepfather always sat at the foot of the bed directly in front of their bedroom TV and smoked. Over time the TV broke and when they took it in for repairs, the repairman said the inside of the TV was covered in nicotine (sp?) and once he cleaned it, it was fine.

Just a thought.

Great to have you back LadyBlue

I've heard it can have an effect. I do know smoking death on VCR innards. And it really doesn't help your lungs or other living creatures that breathe for a living. ;)

ladyblue ~ My husband used to work on computers and I am a smoker. He said that it will shorten the life span of your pc if you smoke around them. And if you are like me, (when I was allowed to smoke in the house)when I was on the computer, I smoked more than normal.

Didja have a good time?

Susan

it was very nice.

Thanks folks I am a smoker and it's the only habit I haven't managed to kick yet. I don't give up yet. I do smoke and I think they are the stinkiest things in the world especially when your clothes get wet. I would think that the film that gets on our windows should be proof of what film can fall onto those chips. Makes sense that it could cause more maintenance and upkeep if you smoke around them. 'Thanks and enjoy rest o f the week.

I missed you Lady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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