The management of the Blendana Hotel, which is located in the Benishangul region of northwest Ethiopia, is pleased with the hotel’s new smoke-free status. “Previously, hotel employees were uneasy about clients smoking tobacco within,” he explains. “Second-hand smoke exposure is a matter of public health,” says Heran Gerba, head of Ethiopia’s Federal Food and Drugs Authority. The advantages of compliance, according to Tano Maure, manager of the Case Asosa Hotel in Benishangul, go beyond physical well-being. “The declaration of smoke-free environments is very good,” he says, noting that smoking in hotels is now illegal in his area.

Source: Ethiopian News June 02, 2022 14:02 UTC