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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 528684" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Actually hotels CAN tell if someone has smoked in there. There is equipment that can detect it and there are also more people than you realize that can detect it. My dad can. His sense of smell is incredible. I remember going to check into a hotel in MN and they swore it was a nonsmoking room (we were there for a wedding). My dad walked into the room, took about 3 breaths, told us not to put our stuff down and we went to the lobby and he told them that no way on earth was that room nonsmoking. They had aired it out and had it professionally cleaned and it STILL smelled strongly of smoke. We ended up with a 3 room suite for the price of that room with 2 beds. He just can smell it. I know a lot of people who can. I can. Having a window open really doesn't make much of a difference. The smell just clings to furniture, wallpaper, carpet.</p><p></p><p>I knew some people who ran a fairly nice hotel. When someone smoked in a nonsmoking room it ended up costing them over $500 to clean the room. All the bedding had to be taken out and cleaned in a special place that did some nonchemical method that got all the smoke out. They also had to come in and do the carpets wth special things, the mattresses, the walls and ceiling, everything. This is NOT a super fancy rich people only hotel, more on the level of a Hilton or maybe as nice as a Doubletree, but probably not that nice. </p><p></p><p>While I appreciate not having to walk through smoke to get itno a building, and esp if I have a cold I won't go into a store if smokers are around the only door because I cannot breathe, that is MY problem. I don't feel that nonsmokers have a right to say that smokers cannot smoke outside, or they cannot have an enclosed place to smoke. I just need a place that is not exposed to it or I cannot breathe anymore. </p><p></p><p>It used to truly infuriate me that smokers got so many breaks. most places I worked did NOT give smokers just a break int he am and one in the pm and lunch to smoke. Most smokers I knew went out to smoke at least ten minutes per hour each day. If you didn't smoke and wanted that break? Tough - you got written up - even with a nonsmoking boss. I know a LOT of people at one regional bank in the Cincy area that took up smoking because of this. I also had a LOT of restaurant employees through the years who got a LOT of extra breaks while the rest of us covered their work because they 'had' to go out and smoke or they got nasty or started messing things up on purpose. At one point I started taking coke breaks. I had a lot of people convinced i was taking cocaine breaks, but I have never touched the stuff. I got real nasty on the one mgr who tried to tell me I couldn't. He couldn't find a policy to write me up for that would justify all the smokers taking breaks out of every hour, or his 'girlfriend' breaks in the freezer of the restaurant. Esp as I had pics of his little 'girlfriend breaks'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 528684, member: 1233"] Actually hotels CAN tell if someone has smoked in there. There is equipment that can detect it and there are also more people than you realize that can detect it. My dad can. His sense of smell is incredible. I remember going to check into a hotel in MN and they swore it was a nonsmoking room (we were there for a wedding). My dad walked into the room, took about 3 breaths, told us not to put our stuff down and we went to the lobby and he told them that no way on earth was that room nonsmoking. They had aired it out and had it professionally cleaned and it STILL smelled strongly of smoke. We ended up with a 3 room suite for the price of that room with 2 beds. He just can smell it. I know a lot of people who can. I can. Having a window open really doesn't make much of a difference. The smell just clings to furniture, wallpaper, carpet. I knew some people who ran a fairly nice hotel. When someone smoked in a nonsmoking room it ended up costing them over $500 to clean the room. All the bedding had to be taken out and cleaned in a special place that did some nonchemical method that got all the smoke out. They also had to come in and do the carpets wth special things, the mattresses, the walls and ceiling, everything. This is NOT a super fancy rich people only hotel, more on the level of a Hilton or maybe as nice as a Doubletree, but probably not that nice. While I appreciate not having to walk through smoke to get itno a building, and esp if I have a cold I won't go into a store if smokers are around the only door because I cannot breathe, that is MY problem. I don't feel that nonsmokers have a right to say that smokers cannot smoke outside, or they cannot have an enclosed place to smoke. I just need a place that is not exposed to it or I cannot breathe anymore. It used to truly infuriate me that smokers got so many breaks. most places I worked did NOT give smokers just a break int he am and one in the pm and lunch to smoke. Most smokers I knew went out to smoke at least ten minutes per hour each day. If you didn't smoke and wanted that break? Tough - you got written up - even with a nonsmoking boss. I know a LOT of people at one regional bank in the Cincy area that took up smoking because of this. I also had a LOT of restaurant employees through the years who got a LOT of extra breaks while the rest of us covered their work because they 'had' to go out and smoke or they got nasty or started messing things up on purpose. At one point I started taking coke breaks. I had a lot of people convinced i was taking cocaine breaks, but I have never touched the stuff. I got real nasty on the one mgr who tried to tell me I couldn't. He couldn't find a policy to write me up for that would justify all the smokers taking breaks out of every hour, or his 'girlfriend' breaks in the freezer of the restaurant. Esp as I had pics of his little 'girlfriend breaks'. [/QUOTE]
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