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Hotels Go Smoke-Free [08/18-4]
Excerpts from: Hotels joining the ranks of smoke-free facilities
Associated
Press [08/17/03]
Already forced outside most buildings, smokers have another place unwilling
to accommodate their habit: hotels.
The North Maple Inn in Basking Ridge and some other small and mid-size hotels
have gone smoke-free, refurbishing rooms once reserved for smokers and returning
them to the mix as smoke-free lodging.
The change was driven by a decline in requests for smoker rooms, hotel managers
say.
To nonsmokers - and even smokers who've quit - that stinks. The smell is just
too difficult to mask, hotel managers say.
"The smoke-free environment has become a large factor in people's buying
decisions. Lodging is the next logical place for this trend to catch on,"
Taylor said.
In Williamsburg, Va., the 98-room Howard Johnson's went smoke-free three years
ago, after a decade of watching guest preferences tilt toward nonsmoking.
But Editor in Chief Jeff Higley says they can also be found in Delaware, California
and Oklahoma. Higley predicts the trend will widen if a major chain follows
suit.
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