In smoke lounges and cigar bars, ambiance is everything — but so is air quality.
CleanLeaf units remove lingering smoke particles, neutralize odors, and maintain a comfortable environment without overpowering ventilation noise. Your guests enjoy a premium atmosphere while your staff works in a healthier space.
Your guests came to smoke. The goal was never to remove that — it's to remove what's left behind: the blue haze that fills the room after the fourth cigar is lit, and the odor that settles into leather, fabric, and the air your staff breathes all shift.
With proper unit placement, our systems exchange the air in your lounge 8-10 times per hour — reducing particulate by up to 99.7% with every pass, quietly enough that the room still sounds like a lounge.
New owners of a Rapid City cigar lounge faced thick blue haze with just four cigars lit, driving guests away. Four OX1100-CF units eliminated the visible smoke entirely.
Read the full case studyFour problems build in a lounge, and only one of them is visible.
Smoke particulate suspended at eye level is the thing guests see first and remember longest. It takes surprisingly few lit cigars to fill a room with it.
Tar and resin settle into leather, upholstery, drapes, and carpet, where they keep releasing odor long after the room has cleared.
A guest spends an hour or two in the lounge by choice. Your bartenders and servers spend eight, most days of the week.
Exhausting hard enough to clear haze means noise, drafts, and dumping the heat or air conditioning you're paying for — all of which guests notice.
A lounge sells an experience, which means the solution can't announce itself. If guests hear the fan, feel a draft, or notice the hardware before they notice the room, the fix has cost you the thing you were protecting. Quiet operation and discreet placement aren't nice-to-haves here — they're the requirement.
CleanLeaf and Blue Ox units hang from the ceiling and run independently of your HVAC — no ductwork, and no loss of the heating and cooling you've already paid to condition.
Units work together to create a circular air pattern through the room. As air flows through the high-efficiency filters, smoke particulate is reduced by up to 99.7% per pass — then handed off to the next unit, which reduces it further. Carbon stages address the odor compounds that particulate filters can't.
This cycle continues until the room reaches a clean air standard, with the air exchanging up to 8-10 times per hour depending on your configuration.
Recirculating beats exhausting in a lounge. Pulling enough air out of the building to clear haze means replacing it with outside air — noisy, drafty, and expensive in both directions of the calendar. Cleaning the air already in the room avoids all three, which is why lounges reach for filtration rather than more ventilation.
Placement makes the difference. Units set to establish a continuous circular pattern draw smoke up and away from seating rather than across it. Key factors include room size and ceiling height, seating layout, how many guests smoke at once, and where your service areas sit.
Each unit has a specific catch and throw distance that determines optimal spacing. Our team can help you design a configuration around your floor plan and sightlines.
Smoke needs both stages. Particulate filtration clears what guests see; carbon handles what they smell. A unit with only one of the two solves half the problem.
Choose based on room size and how heavy the smoke load runs at your busiest hour. All models use standard-sized high-efficiency filters to keep running costs low.
Particulate capture plus a carbon stage in one unit — the standard configuration for lounges, and where nearly every project starts.
Carbon filtration for smoke and standard odor loads.
Explore OX1100-CF
The unit behind our cigar bar case study, where four of them eliminated visible smoke in a lounge that had been losing guests to haze. A shortened bag filter makes room for a 6 lb. carbon after-filter, so the particulate you see and the odor you smell are handled in the same pass. At 48 dBA it stays under the room's own conversation.
High-volume carbon filtration for smoke and odor.
Explore OX2500D-CF
For lounges with high ceilings, open floor plans, or enough seats that a busy Friday puts a dozen cigars in the air at once. More than twice the airflow of the OX1100-CF means fewer units to reach your target air changes — useful when mounting points are limited by beams, lighting, or sightlines you'd rather not interrupt.
For high-volume lounges, hookah rooms, and any space where a 6 lb. after-filter gets saturated faster than you want to be changing it.
Carbon canister configuration for heavy odor applications.
Explore OX1100-CC
Carbon canisters carry substantially more media than an after-filter and hold their capacity longer under constant load. This is the configuration for lounges running full most nights, hookah rooms, and rooms where the smell has already worked its way into the furnishings and needs sustained pressure rather than a seasonal fix.
Carbon canisters for heavy odor mitigation in large spaces.
Explore OX2500D-CC
The same carbon canister approach at more than twice the airflow, for large lounges and multi-room venues where odor control is the whole reason for the project. Also the right answer when smoke is drifting into a dining room, retail floor, or neighbouring tenancy and the complaint is coming from outside your four walls. For more media still, the CL2500-CFP and CL2500D-CCP go further.
For the retail floor, humidor, and office areas that share a building with the lounge but shouldn't share its air.
Carbon filtration for smoke and odor in smaller rooms.
Explore CL1250D-CF
The lounge is the point, but the retail floor next to it is where the margin is — and smoke drifting into it is a problem for both the shopping experience and the stock. A room-sized unit keeps the walk-in humidor and sales floor separate from the lounge in the way that matters to a customer, and the ductable form factor helps in rooms with fixed millwork. For offices and back-of-house, the portable CL400 moves wherever it's needed.
Lounges are one part of the picture. CleanLeaf covers air quality across retail floors and training facilities too.
Dust, dander, and odor control for shops, dispensaries, and specialty retail — protecting both the customer experience and the product on the shelf.
Explore NowChalk dust, odor, and fine particulate control for gyms and climbing facilities — keeping air clear through the most demanding sessions.
Explore NowFind quick answers to the most common questions about our services, solutions, and process.
See All FAQsAir filtration system selection depends on:
• Room size (cubic footage)
• Air changes per hour (ACH)
• Type of contaminants (dust, smoke, mold, odors, VOCs)
• Required filtration level (bag filter %, carbon weight, HEPA, etc.)
Our team evaluates airflow dynamics and contaminant load to recommend a properly sized solution — not just a box with a fan.
Most CleanLeaf and Blue Ox models operate between ~48–66 dBA, depending on airflow setting and unit size.
Lower-speed settings and optional silencers are available for sound-sensitive environments.
Most units are plug-and-play on standard 115V power and include suspension or bracket mounting options.
For larger commercial or industrial applications, we may recommend airflow planning to optimize circulation patterns.
Filter life varies by environment and contaminant load. Typical ranges:
• Pre-filters: 1–3 months
• Carbon media: 6–12 months
• HEPA or high-efficiency bags: 6–18 months
Higher particulate or odor loads may shorten intervals.
Our systems are engineered to capture and control:
• Dust
• Smoke
• Mold and Mildew
• Odors and VOCs
• Fine particulate
Filtration stages may include pleated pre-filters, high-efficiency bag filters, HEPA media, and activated carbon depending on the application.
CleanLeaf offers a 2-year warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship for authorized distributors and end users.
To make a claim, you must get approval first. Approved claims are resolved with a replacement or credit/refund. The warranty is void if the product was misused or used outside its intended purpose.
We also provide ongoing support and access to replacement filters.
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