cigarette smoke in casinos

mmmm.....I don't smoke, never have smoked, never want to smoke. Various family members do smoke so I've been around it. I don't like the smoke and sometimes I find it difficult to breath if the smoke is too thick or "blown in my face".

However, that being said, I go into casinos with the full knowledge that I'm probably going to be around smokers and yet, I still choose to enter the casino and gamble. That is my choice just as it is a smoker's choice to suck on cancer sticks (heh heh...had to say it) just as it is the choice of the casino CEOs & CFOs to allow or disallow smoking.

I agree with cjlinst on one factor...vote for smoking or not-smoking by your betting action. Most larger casinos have "smoke-free" areas. Some of these "smoke-free" areas are pathetic with only a few machines/tables and some are quite large....but all casinos pay attention to the bottom-dollar. And if the bottom-dollar is that the "smoke-free" areas are PACKED with players and have a higher-than-average input than the "smoking" areas, then casinos will enlarge the "smoke-free" areas. Truly, casinos aren't out there to make a statement on this issue....it comes down to the $financials. They will become more "health-conscious" and smoke-free if the play warrants it. (And, yes, if ALL casinos in Las Vegas were "smoke-free", then it wouldn't be a financial matter because gamblers will gamble....however, a single casino knows it would be taking a huge risk if they went "smoke-free" while their competition did not. It's easy to say "do this or do that" when it is not your millions/billions of dollars on the line)

They made the choice to earn a living slinging vice. That they will be exposed to vice shouldn't come as a surprise.

You are not a "considerate" or "courteous" smoker just because you ask someone to the immediate left or right if he minds if you smoke. Your second hand smoke drifts and permeates throughout the entire casino. Designated smoking sections don't work either....that's like saying, "Oh, I see the pool guy just dumped chemicals down on that end of the pool, therefore, to avoid this, I'm going to go swim in the un-chlorinated end pool."

A person's "right" to smoke does not trump public health - EVER.

I don't understand why someone would go to a casino if they don't like the atmosphere found there.

so smokers have the right to pollute the air, but non smokers don't have the right to complain about it?

If the market demanded more non-smoking casinos there would be more non-smoking casinos. But that's never good enough for the anti-smoking zealots so they resort to the power of government to force their world view on everyone.

If smoke troubles you, you need to get yourself your own personal atmosphere.....Until the law changes, you need to protect yourself.



No more breathing that foul air. I wonder if the MGM guy would let his folks wear these to work.

And so it goes, those who want to breathe unpolluted air being shouted down by the imagined rights of those with a death wish. Face it smokers, you are wrong and nothing you can say will dispute the negative facts about smoking and the effect on the human body.

It is a casino, and I smoke...

I do everything to keep it away from people around me.

But, I am done with the anti Smoker thingie that has gone way out of reason...

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Sit nest to me when I am smoking, you get what you got. Be thankful that I notice you, change hands and blow the other way..
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What else can I do but put it out? And that is not going to happen..

Smoking has always been a "nice" distraction topic that started in the 1980's.

If you are really interested in health issue, and do not desire to blow smoke up .......

Right where you think it goes... Then address the following:

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The Smoking issue keeps everyday citizens busy and away from the real problem.

The Chemical pollution into clean water, and the Antibioic pollution into clean water.

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