Jim Wilson/The New York Times A no-smoking sign in a hotel room in Honolulu.Your stay in a non-smoking room in a hotel that allows smoking elsewhere does not prevent exposure to tobacco smoke, reports a new study.
Writing in the fight against smoking, the researchers examined a sample of 10 hotels with complete smoking bans and 30 with designated smoking rooms. They analyzed the air and surfaces for tobacco smoke pollutants, finger wipe samples taken to measure the presence of carcinogenic substances in tobacco and tested the urine of the occupants no smoking after that they stayed in the rooms.
Some non-smoking rooms are quite low in harmful substances. But at their peak, levels of air pollutants from tobacco were nearly five times higher in the non-smoking rooms because they were in Hotel non-smoking rooms, and pollution of the surfaces has been up to 25 times higher. In some cases, non-smokers who stayed in rooms non-smoking showed signs of exposure to nicotine in their urine were more than twice higher than those of non-smokers who stayed in hotels non-smoking.
Only four States, Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota and Vermont - completely prohibiting smoking in hotels, and designated smoking rooms do not work, according to lead author Georg E. Matt, Professor of psychology at the University of State of San Diego.
Leave smokers as a legacy behind that they can not control", he said. "Physical tanks--in fabrics, rugs, upholstery, gypsum - are very deep and you can't just take out them. ''
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