Since the ban on smoking in public spaces, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Smoking rooms in common areas of hotels, airports, malls, workplaces, and other public spaces where you can’t smoke otherwise.
For those that still smoke in this day and age, smoking rooms have become a barely tolerable necessity. No smoker in their right mind enjoys sitting in one of those extremely odorous smoke-filled rooms and certainly, no one ever thought that sitting inside a small box completely filled with cancerous smoke is a good idea.
Second-hand smoke has been proven to be just as toxic as if you were to smoke the cigarette yourself given time. Any form of smoked Tobacco can cause both lung cancer and heart disease in both adults and children. But, ultimately smoking rooms concentrate the effects of the smoke, making them uninhabitable at best and extremely dangerous to our health at worst. The end result is that by entering a popular smoking room for just one cigarette, effectively leads the smoker into breathing in second-hand smoke from at least nine other cigarettes. So what can be done?
The not so perfect yet effective solution is through the use of Air purifiers. The challenge with tobacco smoke is in its composition – which contains particulate matter, mostly ash and byproducts of combustion, which are around 0.07 microns in size. The smoke also contains Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). So before you attempt to find a good air purifier for smoke, you should make sure you understand all the different air filter types, but also read through as many independent reviews as you can to ensure that you’re getting the best machine for the job.
I’m now going to help you a little further along your quest by briefly reviewing what many consider the two best air purifiers on the market at eliminating smoke. A feat only made possible by utilizing several different filter types in one machine in order to fully eradicate the small particulate, VOCs and the odors that smoke produces.
- Rabbit Air MinusA2
The Rabbit Air MinusA2 provides the best deal for medium-sized smoking rooms. This tobacco smoke air purifier punches well above it’s weight with its features for a very reasonable price. Its stylish design and colors are just complementary and will help brighten up what is otherwise a very solemn and uninviting room.
Some of the great features that make the Rabbit Air Minus a big hit with consumers:
- Rabbit Air offers four different and customized filters which suit the user’s personal needs. For smoking rooms, Rabbit Air provides Toxin Absorber filters which are capable of absorbing VOCs and other smoke chemicals.
- Comes with an Odor removing the filter, ideal to remove the odor of cigarettes and cigars.
- Comes with BioGS HEPA filter, which has the edge over normal HEPA filter and can remove tiny 0.3-micron sized particles at 99.97% efficiency.
- Houses a 6 stage air purification technique which promises better air quality than it’s competitors.
- Negative ion generator freshens indoor air quality.
- Ultra quiet operation, thanks to BLDC motors.
- Covers 700 sq. Feet of the area – which is far larger than most other machines.
- It is reasonably priced at $550 and comes with a five-year warranty.
- Austin Air HealthMate HM 400
Next up we next have the Austin Air HealthMate HM 400, which is designed for the largest smoking rooms as it covers over 1500 sq. ft of an area!
The design is a box tower type, and whilst not state of the art design, it still looks classy in its solid steel structure.
The features of the Austin Air HealthMate are:
- Packs nearly 15 pounds of Activated Carbon and zeolite, for filtering out particulates and VOCs.
- It is a 360-degree air filtering unit.
- Comes with a five-year filter life, i.e., you won’t have to change it regularly.
- Pre filters are effective in removing large dust particles.
- Houses a Medical Grade HEPA filter to remove all traces of smoke toxins, but also pollen, mold, dust, etc.
- Austin Air HealthMate requires minimal maintenance and requires only vacuuming or wiping of the outer steel housing.
- It is easy to control, and you can choose three purification speeds.
- Priced at $470 – $500, it comes with a five-year brand warranty.
- Alen BreatheSmart
AlenCorp manufactures some of the quietest and most powerful air purifiers on the planet. The BreatheSmart is their most popular unit as it can be customized to your needs. It comes in 14 color options, and even its filters can be customized.
It has the following great features:
- Choose from 4 specific filter options, which each have their benefits. For smoking rooms, HEPA-Silver and HEPA-FreshPlus are best.
- The filters can easily remove VOCs and Cigarette ash and odor.
- Uses Laser smart sensors which can target minute particles up to 0.3 microns in size.
- Covers up to 1100 sq. ft area.
- The Alen BreatheSmart has smart sensors, capable enough of cleaning the air and saving energy at the same time.
- One of the quietest Air purifiers available right now.
- The powerful Fan of the BreatheSmart blows jets of pure air up to the ceiling to spread it evenly across rooms, or halls.
- Comes with a lifetime guarantee which has virtually no match in the Air Purifier industry.
- The Alen BreatheSmart is a bit pricier than many at between $500 to $650. However, the features, outstanding reviews and lifetime warranty make it a great deal.