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Old Jan 13, 2007, 1:04 pm
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Originally Posted by MisterNice
I agree on smoke detectors but install carbon monoxide detectors? Cmon. Next it will be methane detectors, benzene detectors, carbon disulfide detectors etc. With all these chemical detectors here wont be enough space left in the room for two people. I really dont consider carbon monoxide a real hazard in hotel rooms.

MisterNice
Interesting that you bring up the other detectors.

Five years ago, after a serious sinus and upper respiratory infection, I lost all sense of smell. (More common than you would imagine: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/loss_of_smell.htm )

Recently I was in a building that had a natural gas leak, I could smell nothing.

CO is odorless but Chlorine and several other common chemicals are in and around hotels and public buildings.

Every few years we hear about a CO or CL death in a hotel. Last time I remember it involved CO from a pool heater.
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