A theory has recently been postulated
asserting the great importance of smoke to the functioning
of electrical components. According to this theory, it is
smoke which makes components work because every time you let
smoke out of a component, it stops working!! It seems this
claim has been verified through extensive field testing.
As with many great discoveries, this has eluded the great
minds of our time by its very simplicity. Of course, smoke
makes all things electrical work! Remember the last time
smoke escaped from your power supply? Didn’t it stop
working? On a system level, a wiring harness carries smoke
from one device to another, and when the harness springs a
leak, it lets the smoke out of everything at once, and then
nothing works. Some systems require larger quantities of
smoke to operate properly. That’s why the wires going to
them are bigger.
Of course, there are some aspects of the theory which
require further investigation. For example, one would think
that persons who smoke cigarettes would be much more healthy
from ingesting all that smoke. Experimental data seems to
contradict that hypothesis. Perhaps smokers are actually
exhaling more smoke than they inhale...