Smoking room
Under a smoking room (including smoking ) refers to a separated rooms for smoking of tobacco . An older, somewhat more elegant expression is fumoir (from French fumer , 'smoking'). The name Fumoir is still the common name for it in Switzerland.
history
The first fumoirs emerged with the emergence of tobacco culture in the 17th century as one of many rooms with a special function in stately homes . They were usually furnished with comfortable upholstered furniture to encourage casual entertainment, and there were often game tables or billiards . After dinner, the gentlemen - tobacco, like coffee, was originally a taboo for women - retired to the smoking room and held their tobacco college there without bothering the ladies and their cloakrooms with the blue haze. Over time people began to change clothes when entering the smoking room. H. you took off your jacket and put on a special smoker's jacket, the tuxedo (from English smoke , smoke ').
With the advent of great gastronomy, smoking rooms were also set up in grand hotels and restaurants . Café Kranzler was a pioneer in Berlin in 1833 . These rooms were also soon part of the standard of luxury steamers, such as the Titanic and the luxury trains at the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1931, in a departure from the plush fauteuils of the fumoirs that prevailed until the 1920s , Le Corbusier designed ultra-modern fumoir fittings in chrome and leather for the smoking compartments of the French railways; the armchairs that go with it, known as the Cassina armchair, have become a classic in modern furniture architecture.
Nowadays there are smoking rooms at or in numerous public buildings, such as B. hospitals or airports .
Legal
Smoking in catering facilities is subject to legal regulations in German-speaking countries. Since the non-smoker protection legislation in Germany and Switzerland is a matter for the federal states or cantons, a large number of different requirements have arisen under which smoking rooms are permitted. The article Smoking ban gives an overview of the individual regulations .
Alternative meaning
Smoker , a reduced form of the smokehouse , regional as Smoking and Curing known.
Individual evidence
- ^ Fumoir In: Meyers Konversationslexikon. 6th volume, 4th edition. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 784.
- ^ The fumoir sponsorship of the cigarette companies. Tagesanzeiger (Zurich), August 15, 2012, accessed on June 14, 2019 .
