Unholy smoke

Sure. Do all the motions of brushing off those brown fluff and wash with windex or light hearted cleaning. The point is it still smells of cigarette and still brown. That smell comes from often visiable and invisiable coating of everything: outside caseing, inside caseing, all boards, eveyrthing that air can reach is same idea for cigarette stuff. I have a fan out of RT, after first cleaning, whoo it's clean like new... twirled it and it smells faintly of it, oh rats! Grabbed double handful of ear swabs and alcohol or methyl hydrate. Cleaned everything to smallest details on that fan in pieces till I don't get brown stains on the buds. Now it smells nothing. Indeed windex do very little. Might need homemade cleaning solution with stronger active cleaner in it. When I'm shopping for used machines that smells and that user is smoker, I tend to tell that I can't take it at that price because of this smoke stain and smell and counter offer lower price. PSU contents and CPU heatsink with fan on it are first to get plugged up with those sticky brown stuff. Seriously impairs cooling. Bad Thing. Wizard PS on related story, I wondered why my room stunk even I don't have anything stinky therein. The source: 3' by 6" window sill that I didn't clean often. At first glance it look nothing but that stuff is *tons* when paper trowel came up with it and nearly brownish-black. I like windows open and my parents smoke outside near that bedroom window.