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Smokers: Apple doesn't want your business

This seems somewhat strange to us: Apple is allegedly refusing to honour warranties on Macs belonging to smokers, voiding warranties while arguing that smoking near a Mac exposes the tech support worker to secondhand smoke. 

Sure, chain smoking can make everything around disgusting and we feel for those technicians who have to deal with those machines that probably stink and have some tar residue in the fans.  But does smoking actually cause damage to the computer?

As the Consumerist reports:

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