Well it is the latest gaming news from the gambling industry of Las Vegas that some groups are pushing Las Vegas Casinos to go smoke-free. I am not sure about this happening anyway but lets check out the news in detail.
Well since Nevada is one of the few remaining states to allow smoking in casinos, the Las Vegas casinos’ floor are just as more smoky than other any other gambling zones.
Several groups are having a meeting in Las Vegas this week to push the smoking snuff out of the Las Vegas casinos. “We are completely targeting the gaming industry, because of the health impacts to the workers,” said Smoke-Free Gaming of America Chairperson Stephanie Steinberg. “They continue to be sick. They continue to die from secondhand smoke exposure, and we’re fighting for their right to breathe clean air.”
Teresa Price is an anti-smoking advocate who worked at Caesars Palace for more than 25 years. She says she was subjected to harmful secondhand smoke as a dealer. “You can have six people smoking cigarettes, and you can’t escape it,” she said. “Even if they’re not at your table, they’re around, and it’s very, very dangerous.”
Vinny Rennich is one of the faces of this movement. Five years ago, he lost one-third of his lung. “I worked at Tropicana Atlantic City for 26 years,” he said. “I never smoked cigarettes, and all these years inhaling secondhand smoke, I came down with lung cancer.”
The old Silver City Casino tried to ban smoking in 1991, replacing ash trays with candy. The effort failed. Three years later, gamblers at Silver City were once again allowed to light up. “We’re from Australia, and they’ve banned people from smoking in pubs,” said tourist Peter Zahra. “It does drive people away, 100 percent.”
Las Vegas has reinvented itself time and again. In this city of smoke and mirrors, it appears the cigarette smoke is here to stay. “You come to Vegas, you know exactly what you’re getting into,” one hotel worker said. The smoke-free groups say casinos that banned smoking in other states did not lose business. They say some even gained business from gamblers who didn’t want to be around secondhand smoke.
As per the statistics and gaming news, I think in 2006, the Nevada gaming industry had reinforced the rights of customers to smoke by pushing for an exception for casinos in the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act. The act actually prohibits smoking in the most of the public places.
