A closer look
Apple repair technicians in the late 2000s famously refused to service certain Mac computers under warranty if they discovered the internal components were covered in a thick layer of toxic tar and ash from secondhand cigarette smoke. The company categorized computers belonging to heavy smokers as biohazards, claiming that the carcinogenic dust coating the cooling fans and motherboards posed a severe health risk to their underpaid geniuses working at the mall. It is a wildly dystopian concept that a cold, unfeeling slab of aluminum and silicon can essentially get emphysema because its owner refused to take a break from chain-smoking while aggressively arguing with strangers on internet forums. Imagine spending two thousand dollars on a premium piece of sleek technology only to have the manufacturer legally disown you because your hard drive reeks of a dive bar at three in the morning
