Ventilating a Cigar Room

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Originally Posted by Wharf Rat

You need to make sure that there is a source of fresh outside makeup air. If you exhaust without makeup air, you might lower the pressure in the basement. Then, if you have gas appliance or a fireplace, they won't draft right. That's potentially dangerous.

It's better to have more air coming in than going out (if there had to be an inbalance). What about a plain old wall fan with an exhaust? I use that in my house and it works great. I have had 7-8 people smoking at once in my kitchen and it exhaust good enough all considered.