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• Second Hand Smoke - Tom's Hardware Guide Welcomes New Columnist
  Tuesday 27 April 1999 – 06:00
  On 1st May, Tom's Hardware Guide will be premiering the first in a regular series of columns titled Second Hand Smoke
• Second Hand Smoke: Mad money GPUs
  Friday 4 November 2005 – 09:27
  Feel the excitement for graphics chips, the heat for speed? No doubt, there are few segments in the IT industry, in which a battle of cut-throat competition is carried out so openly and visibly to the customer as in the 3D graphics chip industry.
• Second Hand Smoke: Where's Disestablish-mentarianism When You Need It?
  Friday 19 August 2005 – 11:05
  There's a new post in Omid's blog.
• Second Hand Smoke: Uhm, Intel Fails Successfully
  Thursday 21 April 2005 – 12:44
  Omid Rahmat added a new post to his blog: Following on from my comments about the sad state of tech publishing, I should sound a note of sympathy for the sad state of tech punditry.
• Printer particles as bad as cigarette smoke: study
  Wednesday 1 August 2007 – 10:19 in Business
  Sydney (Australia) – Australian researchers have found that exposure to ordinary printer toner can be just as hazardous as cigarette smoking. Lidia Morawska, PhD, with the Queensland University of Technology tested 62 office laser printers and found that

• Second Hand Smoke - Getting Your Reviews on Tom's Hardware Guide*
  Friday 21 September 2001 – 06:00
  We've added new features to Tom's PriceGrabbing Guide to allow users to post their own reviews of products. Now, you get to rate products, too.
• Second Hand Smoke - Kung Fu, Vodka, And The Joy Of Streaming*
  Friday 22 June 2001 – 06:00
  We paid a little visit to the Streaming Media West and Digital Entertainment Box Forum in Long Beach. Part showbusiness, part technology proctology, this is our report.
• Second Hand Smoke - Google Fast the Northern Light*
  Friday 10 September 1999 – 06:00
  The killer app of the Internet doesn't involve handing over your credit card number, but it may be just as insidious.
• Second Hand Smoke - The business of talking about games*
  Friday 11 June 1999 – 06:00
  The entertainment industry thrives on gossip, rumor, innuendo, and hype. Is it possible that the computer industry is succumbing to the same blight? Is it necessarily a bad thing?
• Second Hand Smoke - Heads or Tails: Diamond and Creative*
  Friday 7 May 1999 – 06:00
  Diamond and Creative seem like anachronisms in the modern world of PC graphics; the world of the vertically integrated vendor.