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Smoke-Free Hotel Rooms
There are few things in life more disgusting than the rancid smell of someone else's cigarette smoke entrenched deep within the curtains, carpets, and bedding of a hotel room. Gag!
No offense to you smokers out there, but your stink remains long after you've checked out. Even non-smoking rooms tend to be similarly soiled; smoke, after all, floats around and settles where it pleases.
That's why I was excited to learn that one hotel chain is doing something about it. Westin Hotels & Resorts have now banned smoking entirely within their establishments. In doing so, they had to throw away all the bedding and drapes -- the lungs of the smoking rooms -- and thoroughly de-stench entire hotels.
I don't know about you, but Westin has now won my business. And now Marriott is following in their footsteps. Thank you!
Filed under: Hotels and Accommodations
Reader Comments (Page 5 of 33)
Gary Oct 27th 2006 8:13AM
What's next? Some Hotel Chains counting our calories and denying someone their desert? A two drink Maximum at the bar or in the room? Dress codes? Only aproved Colognes and Perfumes? Or NO SCENTS AT ALL, someone out there might not like your smell! Face it, the PC-Nazis are on the loose! Legal Adult Behavior is....that's right L*E*G*A*L. I do not do business with anyone who restricts my legal behavior.
Ben Oct 27th 2006 8:15AM
Bev Nunez re post at 08:04am
I wonder how many times you did your part and reported those dui's? If you didn't, you are part of the problem. Ben
Ann Oct 27th 2006 8:16AM
First of all, hey Chris, learn to spell and create a sentence!
Secondly, you with the lung cancer due to sencond hand smoke....was it really due to second hand smoke, c'mon now?
Thirdly, niwe all you non smokers have a more enjoyable place to gather and complain about us smokers, actually 2 places, kudos to you. Youve already banned us from restaurants and bars, its only fair that you start taking over the hotels as well, no? Remember now, and lets be fair, because I bet if I were to take a pole, the majority of you were probably smokers at one time or another, smokers DO have rights too no matter how YOU feel about us. Put that in your pipe and smoke it:)
Vera Oct 27th 2006 8:18AM
I used to smoke and quit in 1988 after too many years of smoking. I never realized how stinky ciggy smoke was in a house or room until I quit and my olfactory senses came back after being deadened by the smoking. Smokers can't smell the stink fully because of their smoking...Try quitting and then return to a "smoking" room in a motel and see for yourself how funky it is. You will have more compassion for those who do not smoke and are trying to breathe without gagging.
Mary Sanchez Oct 27th 2006 8:19AM
Why they even allowed smoking in motels in tne first place is beyond me. I've had terrible allergies most of my life, and cig smoke is number one which I cannot tolerate.
frederick w reed Oct 27th 2006 8:19AM
most of you are right smoke does stink up the rooms me an my wife smoke out side unless we are in upsate n.y. in the winter when the temp is 20 or below then we smoke inside sorry about that
betty pierson Oct 27th 2006 8:20AM
people have always said we should not discriminate, against others well this discrimination,what happen to our freedom, it's being taken away little by little,you have never heard of a smoker killing people in a car accident, but they do if they have been drinking, or doing drugs, are you going to ban those who drink, or those who are gay,or those who are from a different race, religion, because if you ban one thing in all fairness you much all ban all these too,
what is fair for onr is fair for another,we know smoking is harmful to us, but that is our choice, who are you to take our freedom of choice from us, your not God,so get off your high horse and be for real, i don't drink, but that does not mean i would rather stay in place where drinking is not allowed, to each is own.
Jonie Hensley Oct 27th 2006 8:21AM
The smokers always claim their rights to smoke, and I agree with their feeling the right to smoke.
The issue here is that people who are pursuing a healthy environment have a "greater right" to breathe clean air. Some smokers need to find the Integrity, and disipline to enjoy their smoking, while not infringing on other peoples rights. Smoke(ing) just cant be allowed in buildings, or crowded open public places. I believe a solution can be found some way to mediate peace to this issue, and pray this happens.
Burned Oct 30th 2006 9:08PM
HOORAY!!!.... for FIRST CLASS HOTELS!
Smokers do not belong in nice places like the Westin & Marriotts. They belong in bowling alleys,truck stops,and on a wait list for iron lungs.. Adults don't learn how to smoke, MISGUIDED children do. Reading the comments from the smokers here will show you they are still very immature. "WE HAVE OUR RIGHT TO SMOKE"...to use stoplights as ashtrays..to stink up Your health,YOUR hair and YOUR clothes & your children's lungs. Smokers..Grow up and stop hurting others. I can't wait to have an outdoor seat at a restaraunt without smokers!
Amy Oct 27th 2006 8:21AM
I am a smoker, probably will alwalys be a smoker, but I understand people who do not wish to enjoy my "habit" I have a tendancy to smoke outside at all times, my husband and children (all grown) do not smoke. When we stay in a hotel, it's always non-smoking rooms, and if I care to light up ... I go outside. But here's my issue, I'm outside ... in a "designated" area ... and still get comments from people that I'm fouling "THEIR" air. Truthfully, I'm tired of all the complaining, if I'm not smoking indoors ... or around your children, what gives you the right to come up and tell me that it's a discusting habit? Don't you think I know that? But none the less, people have decided that they have the right to complain ... the next time I see someone picking their nose in public I beleive I'll go up to them and make them feel like they are killing babies ... it is a terrible habit, it does spread germs and risk lives ... think of all those people with COPD that are touching the door handles after these people ... maybe we should just wrap ourselves in plastic where ever we go ... get a life people ...
Jr Oct 27th 2006 1:58PM
Now I wish this movement trickles down to restraunts and bars. Its not fair to smell like cigarette smoke let alone breath in 2nd hand smoke.
Carol Oct 27th 2006 8:25AM
If hotels would actually clean the rooms, you wouldn't have a smell. Sanitize. Replace drapes and bedding. Actually change a vaccum bag. I've smoked for years, and non-smokers coming into my home don't know I even smoke in my house. It's called cleaning. Change filters in the ventilation system on a regular basis would do wonders as well. A little common sense. Smokers aren't the excuse for every ill of the world. Stop buses, cars, factories...all worse than second hand smoke.
steve Oct 27th 2006 8:24AM
Smokers have no rights when it comes with a disreguard to someone else,it is disgusting and i for one should not have to breath smoke from someone else if they choose to continue to kill themselves and as far as the car is concerned it is a disgrace to see how many people still smoke in the car with your own children breathing in the smoke that you are, exercising your right, you should be ashamed of your selves! (right after you flick that butt out the window of your car)ha ha you think that the world is your ashtray!!!
J. B. Peyrot Oct 27th 2006 8:27AM
I worked for 54 years at a major manufacturer of aircraft engines, and when I joined in 1952 the smokers could smoke anywhere except in an engine test cell, where a No Smoking sign hung from two chains, fluttering in the breeze, brightly lit by a 6 foot afterburner flame. And when your wife had a baby, you were expected to bring a box of Crooks cigars, which were molded in a zigzag pattern, Then came the edict not to smoke in conference rooms, unless customers were present that did smoke. Then came the edict not to smoke inside buildings, so that the smoking janitor in a rented building complained that all the smokers gathered in his office, where the company rule could not apply because he was not a company employee. Then came an edict to smoke only in outside designated areas, and not under a canopy so that smokers might be out in the rain. When I left, smokers could smoke in the parking lot, but only those of rented buildings. Such is progress!
Deborah Rhyne Oct 27th 2006 8:25AM
When are all of you non-smoker's gonna get off of your high horses and start worrying about the people that drink in the hotel rooms and then go get behind the wheels of their cars and kill someone or the drug addicts that do the same. SMOKERS HAVE RIGHTS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT ALLOW US TO SMOKE AND YOU ASSHOLES ARE TAKING AWAY ONE OF OUR RIGHTS! How would you like it if the tables were reversed and everything was for smokers, how would you feel?? Think about it!
Jeanne Tatum Oct 27th 2006 8:24AM
Is all lung cancer found only in smokers? How about Central a/c. The ducts in almost all homes and businesses are yellow even if there are no smokers in either. The EPA is 'advertising' that inside air is worse than outside air. The air purifing things are selling faster than ever. Stop, think and take another puff!
steve Oct 27th 2006 8:26AM
Smokers have no rights when it comes with a disreguard to someone else,it is disgusting and i for one should not have to breath smoke from someone else if they choose to continue to kill themselves and as far as the car is concerned it is a disgrace to see how many people still smoke in the car with your own children breathing in the smoke that you are, exercising your right, you should be ashamed of your selves! (right after you flick that butt out the window of your car)ha ha you think that the world is your ashtray!!!
jim Oct 27th 2006 8:26AM
they lost my buisness.
David Oct 27th 2006 8:26AM
HEY LADY YOUR PURFUME IS BURNING MY SINUSES! Now they need to stop the women with the eye burning, sinus attacking, perfume. Do these women stink so bad they have to bath in perfume to try to cover it up and make the rest of us suffer from the cloud of fallout. The offensive odor lingers down halls & attaches itself to bedding and curtins long after the sinus offender leaves.
Rowan Sterling Oct 27th 2006 8:26AM
I find the arguement about banning handguns and alcohol in hotel rooms if they ban smoking quite amusing. This arguement has one flaw...when you leave, you take your gun and your booze with you. Neither are left for the next occupants. When you smoke, you leave the smell behind. I don't think it's a matter of "morality" but more a matter of occupant comfort. I used to smoke and I would never smoke in my own home because of the smell.