Re: One benefit of the reduced number of smokers...
I once performed maintenance on a computer owned by a heavy smoker. And worse than dogs, she kept.... ferrets.
Dog hair and tar is not pleasant. Ferrets are apparently ungodly smelly critters (I assume all of the mustelids are, really), and it does not improve when their dander and fur is glued to every @#$%# surface within the machine.
Now that I own a reasonably sized ultrasonic cleaner, not ONCE have I needed to clean shmutz out of a heatsink. Go figure.