Originally posted by: rett98
As a smoker (for too many years) I 100% do not mind or disagree with casinos going non-smoking. I presume that the casino's would allow smoking in outside areas attached to their buildings to ensure the gambler came back in to continue feeding the machines.
This being the case then I'm not sure how the rates for insurance premiums would go down drastically.(I'm sure they would go down though) You have to accept that there is still the possibility of a fire (however small) being caused by a smoker from an outside area. It probably would not get into the casino floor but with the right wind conditions and certain "human" errors it could cause some major damage.
Just my two penny's worth
Keep safe
Terry
I doubt that they would go down "drastically"; if that was so, then many more casinos would already have instituted a nonsmoking policy. They have to evaluate (the business from nonsmokers that we would gain) + (insurance premium savings) - (the business from smokers that we would lose). As the first quantity increases and the third quantity decreases, the decision becomes clearer even if the second quantity doesn't increase or was never that significant in the first place.
We're clearly not at that point yet, but as smokers die off and aren't replaced by new smokers (thank God), it will make more and more business sense to ban smoking.
