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Marriott Joins Westin in Hotel-Wide Smoke Free Policy

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Robert Broughton

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Jul 19, 2006, 11:14:26 AM7/19/06
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Marriott Going Smokefree in US and Canada

Parts excerpted from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, 7/19/06

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hotel chain Marriott International Inc. will
announce on Wednesday that it is eliminating smoking in all rooms of its
2,300-plus hotels in the United States and Canada. Westin Hotels
announced a similar policy earlier this year.

The move is part of an effort to stop an increasingly common source of
guest complaints.

More than 90 percent of Marriott's hotel rooms in the United States and
Canada are already smokefree, but smoking will now be eliminated in
public spaces, such as restaurants, bars, and meeting rooms, the report
said.

The change in policy will start in September. Guests who smoke in hotel
rooms face a clean-up fee ranging from $200 to $300, according to the
story.

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Bob Broughton
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
"It should be legal for a private maternity ward to permit smoking."
- Chuck Wright, May 22, 2006

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