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Thanks for posting this!  As the owner of The Clarendon, this means a lot... we know that smokers are irritated - and can get nasty - when they learn how tough our anti-smoking laws are in Arizona.  Sure, you can carry a gun into pretty much anywhere without a permit, but you can't smoke anywhere.  If you're within 20 feet of a building entrance, no smoking... if you're below a window that opens/closes, no smoking... if you're anywhere food/drinks are served (even outdoors), no smoking... if you're in a pool area, no smoking.  This means that if you're in a dense area, like a downtown with door-to-door businesses, you may have to walk 1/2 a mile to get somewhere you can smoke.  

On the hotel side of things, there's nothing worse than chasing people around telling them "sorry, but you need to walk into the street to smoke" or trying to get a room ready after it's been smoked in, especially when we're at 100% occupancy... not only do we take the room down for 2-3 days, but we deep-clean everything, and we charge the guest $250.  Marijuana and cigars are worse.  People think because Medical Marijuana is legal here that they can smoke it anywhere (they can't, the law is pretty strict about where you can use it, you pretty much have to go into a residential dwelling, not a hotel room).

Electronic cigarettes have really saved the day, and are a win-win situation - people who need nicotine can get it using a system similar to an asthma inhaler, without the thousands of other ingredients, and for the hotel we're helping to keep guests happy and smoking in their rooms or anywhere else they want to get their nicotine.  I think if nicotine delivery can be made a lot less dangerous and a lot less offensive, the world would be a much better place.  

Lastly, there's a lot less litter - 1/3 of all litter in the united states is composed of cigarette butts, which is shameful.  I personally have always thought there should be a 5 cent deposit on cigarette butts... this alone would probably end homelessness, because most smokers wouldn't care to save their butts, but most homeless people would turn into gainfully employed butt collectors.

Anyway, thank you again for publishing this article - I hope that more and more hotels follow our lead.  If you're a non-smoker you should also be in favor of this, because there's nothing worse than having your floor or hotel room reek like cigarettes - and imagine how wonderful Vegas would smell if it didn't smell like smoke everywhere! That's my number one reason for not going to Vegas - I can't stand the cigarette smoke!

Ben Bethel
Owner/GM
The Clarendon Hotel

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