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Article: The Crowne Plaza makes smokers persona non grata.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- December 26, 2006
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Byline: Katherine Conrad
Dec. 26--At the newly refurbished Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown San Jose, guests will find that while Fifi the pooch is welcome, their chain-smoking Aunt Vi is not. The 230-room hotel is not the first in San Jose to declare itself off-limits to smokers, but their ranks are thin -- only the Westin, which banned smoking a year ago, and the Marriott, which followed suit in July, have declared smokers persona non grata. "There's no smoking anywhere in the building," said Don Corbosiero, general manager of the Crowne Plaza, which has set aside an outside patio for smokers. "It's a risk . . . but it's so hard to have smoking and ...