The Consumerist relays the accounts of two Apple computer owners who were refused service on their machines because the company claimed that residues from cigarette smoke in their house created unsafe working conditions for Apple employees, and therefore voided the computers' warranties.
"This has to do with nicotine being listed as a hazardous substance," says ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross. "Obviously, the home of a smoker is going to have some kind of residue."
"By this insane reasoning, every object in the world that has even been around cigarette smoke is too dangerous to touch," says ACSH's Todd Seavey.
ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan asks, "Will TV repair people now complain that fixing the televisions of smokers poses a hazard to their health? We at ACSH consistently present data on the health hazards of smoking, but we also point out cigarette-related junk science when it is served up, as it was here."
