Does the MacBook Pro with the retina display need to be protected from smoke?

So my new college roommate loves to watch is high-definition movies on my MacBook Pro with retina display. The problem is that he likes to smoke indoors and he blows huge clouds of smoke on my computer while he's using it.  Since the newest MacBook Pro has air intakes along the bottom sides of the computer, what are the chances that there is something building up on the inside of my computer?  I wonder if the designers at Apple took into consideration that people may subject the computer to conditions such as this.
Any thoughts?

You should - if you've been to a smokers house - you'll notice that some parts of their walls have yellowish stain from smoking - those same stains can accumulate inside your Macbook internals.
I've opened enough desktop computers from smoker's house and the fans aren't working because of all the soot from cigarette smoke and it's also sticky inside - if they can do that much damage in a desktop computer - imagine what it can do to the internals of your Macbook when prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke in tight quarters..
see picture below from tar build up due to cigarette smoke...

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