Seattle 2012


Downtown Seattle


Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, with 609,000 residents, as
of the 2010 Census. Population of the Seattle metropolitan area is about 3.4 million. The city is a major
coastal seaport situated on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound, an arm of the Pacific Ocean,
and Lake Washington, about 183 kms south of the Canada-US border.

In 2010, Seattle was the sixth busiest port in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trade
with Asia. After the Great Depression, a growth returned during and after World War 2, due partially
to the local Boeing company,which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The city
developed as a technology center in the 1980s. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and
internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by 50,000 between
1990 and 2000.


Japan Airline aircraft and meals served on a plane.

(L) Approaching to the Vancouver International Airport (R) Apron of the Airport

(L) Vancouver International Airport is a smokefree facility.
(R) A sign to transfer to USA: A few air passengers were there to travel to USA.

(L) 'Welcome Vancouver' sign and airport corridor
(R) Canadair Regional Jet 200

(L) Interior of the aircraft (M) A scene a staff is loading a luggage (R) A gate door of the Canadair Regional Jet 200

(L) Canad Air Regional Jet 200 is just departing Vancouver International Airport.
(M) Air view of George Massey Highway and Tunnel, that goes through under the Fraser River.
(R) Airplane is now approaching Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

(L) Air Canada Regional Jet began to descent for Seattle.
(M) An aircraft is taxing on the apron of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
(R) No smoking inside the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

Alaskan Airline aircraft is flying over the downtown Seattle.
An aircraft from Anchorage, Alaska, is approaching Vancouver.


(L) A guidance about a ground transportation: A Link light-rail is a convenient and economical tool to and in the city center.
(M) A station sign of SeaTac/Airport
(R) A Link light-railway track near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

(L) A Link light-railway is connecting the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and the downtown Seattle.
(M) Railway has eleven stations between Westlake Station and Aiprport Station.
(R) A residential area is frequently seen along the Sound Transit railway track.

(L) The Link railway track runs underground in the area of the city center.
This is a railway track between Mount Baker and Beacon Hill stations.
(M) A rail-yard of the Link railway between Beacon Hill and SODO stations (R) A ticket of Sound Transit

(L) A route map of the Link railway
(M) Numerous transportation services are available in downtown Seattle.
(R) Interior of the Link train

(L) A ticket and of the Link railway, Seattle (R) A rail-yard and the headquarters of Tully's Coffee

(L) Link train at SeaTac station waiting for departure (R) Link train at underground Pioneer Square Station

A vast, clean underground space is observed at Pioneer Square Station, downtown Seattle.

(L) Both bus and train use this magnificent underground station of Seattle.
It is illegal to cross the rail track. (R) Westlake station tunnel

Westlake Station, Seattle

The main entrance to Pioneer Square Station and an up-and-down escalator

(L) Five trolleybus systems are operating in Seattle.
(R) Metro bus ticket in Seattle ( $2.25 during the off-peak, $0.75 for senior )

Sounder trains travel between Tacoma and Seattle and between Everett and Seattle, and run weekday mornings and afternoons only.
Photographed at King Street Station, Seattle

(L) An Amtrak Cascades train at King Stree Station. It runs 251 kms from Vancouver to Seattle,
continuing 500 kms south via Portland, to Eugene, Oregon
(R) Smith-Tower was constructed in 1913, and is in restoration of the station buildings in 2012.

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Smoking ban in hotels in Seattle, Washington

Seattle Sharaton Hotel

In December 2005, Washington became the 5th state to implement a comprehensive statewide law prohibiting
smoking in all indoor public places and workplaces including restaurants, bars, taverns, bowling alleys, skating
rinks, and non-tribal casinos. Hotel rooms are exempted from the ban. However, a great change has occurred
to the private hotel industry. Almost allmajor hotels removed a smoking room from their facilities.


Double-tree by Hilton, Seattle: Entrance, dinning room and bar: All are smokefree.

(L) Hilton Seattle (M) The W-Hotel Seattle (R) Four Seasons Hotel Seattle

(L) Fairmont Olympic Seattle (R) The W-Hotel Seattle

(L) Renaissance Hotel, Seattle (R) Smoking is prohibited within the area of 7.6 meters from building entrance.

Smoking Ban in Seattle's Hotels

Double-tree Hotel by Hilton, Seattle: 120 rooms/all non-smoking
Renaissance Hotel, Seattle: 554 rooms/all non-smoking
Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle: 450 rooms/smoking five rooms ( 1.11% )*
Grand Hyatt Seatle: 425 rooms/smoking 24 rooms ( 5.65% )*
W-Hotel Seattle: 424 rooms/all nonsmoking
Four Seasons Hotel Seattle 147rooms/all non-smoking
Hilton Seattle 238 rooms/all non-smoking
Sheraton Seattle Hotel 1258 rooms/ all non-smoking

* Legend: The number of total guest rooms / smoking rooms of a hotel
( The percentage of smoking rooms to total rooms )



H
Smoking Restriction at Hotels in the World: Actual Survey
The ratio of a non-smoking guest room to the total hotel rooms was calculated,
based on-the-spot investigation.

　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Tokyo
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Korea
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Macau
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Bangkok
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Hong Kong
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Vancouver
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Seattle
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at San Francisco
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Shanghai

　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Nice
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Berlin
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Austria
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Germany
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Switzerland
　Total smoking Ban in hotels at Moscow, Russia
　Total smoking Ban in hotels at Saint Pertersburg, Russia
　Smoking ban in hotels of Canberra and Sydney
　Smoking ban in hotels of Gold Coast

　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Norway Oslo
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Norway Bergen
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Norway Fjord
　All hotels are smoke-free in Norway Fjord


A partial smoking bans in hotels do not protect guests from dangers of tobacco.

Hotels, that have the smoking and non-smoking rooms, do not adequately protect people from the
dangers of tobacco. That is the conclusion of a new San Diego State University study published in
the Journal Tobacco Control. Researchers took air quality readings and tested surfaces for evidence
of tobacco-smoke in a random sample of San Diego hotel rooms. Ten hotels had complete smoking
bans while 30 others had some dedicated non-smoking rooms. Compared with hotels that prohibit
smoking, hotels with only partial bans had higher surface and air nicotine levels.That was true even
in the non-smoking rooms in hotels with a partial ban. Only five U.S. states , Indiana, Michigan,
North Dakota, Vermond and Wisconsin, require all motel and hotel rooms to be smoke free. Four
cities in California, including Santa Monica, have such a law. Researchers say guests who want to
avoid tobacco exposure should stay only in smoke-free hotels.
Source: KPBS, San Diego, May 15, 2013


シアトルは、アメリカ北西部に位置しワシントン州を含めた太平洋岸北西部地域の最大の都市である。カナダと
の国境までは約180km。市域の人口は56万人ほどで、 タコマなどを含めた都市圏の人口は305万人である。
マイクロソフトとニンテンドーオブアメリカがシアトル近郊のレドモンドに本拠地を置いていることもあり、
シアトルを含めた一帯ではIT関連産業の成長が著しい。1962年の万国博会跡地であるシアトル・センターには、
シアトルのシンボルタワーである「スペースニードル」がある。ボーイングの他、スターバックス、ノード
ストローム、アマゾンなどの優良企業がシアトルに本社を置いている。

2005年10月に米国東北部、ワシントン州では全米5番目の強制的喫煙規制の自治州となった。この法律により
公共施設での喫煙行為は非合法となった。宿泊設備の喫煙室は全客室の25％以内と制限した。喫煙禁止空間へ
のタバコ副流煙の流入を回避するために出入口、窓、空気取入口から最低 7.6メートルの空間で喫煙行為を
禁止している。今回の調査で、主要なホテルでは喫煙客室を廃止し、設置しても、その比率は全客室の5.65%
以内と、屋内喫煙禁止が広く受け入れられていることを確認することが出来た。

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Railway Travel around the World 世界鉄道旅行
　　All railway trains should be completely smoke -free.
　鉄道全面禁煙化は世界の常識
Smoking ban in the railway trains of the world


Seattle, US National Parks and San Francisco

Seattle 01 Seattle 02 Amtrak to Glacier National Park Glacier National Park
Grand Teton National Parks Yellowstone National Park 01 Yellowstone National Park 02
Smoking ban in National Parks San Francisco 01 San Francisco 02 Hotels in San Francisco
UCSF Medical Center Smoking control in Midwestern US and at San Francisco

シアトル
執筆　医学博士　宮本順伯
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The article was written in July 2012. All photographs were taken in June 2012,
by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
An information was added in July 2016.
Copyright(C) 2012 Junhaku Miyamoto, All rights reserved.