Designated smoking area(s) at McCarran

I was in Las Vegas this past weekend for a little fun and a bunch of work at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. I flew Frontier so my gates were on the D concourse. I was very surprised on arrival to see the glassed-in slot machine area on that concourse was once again a designated smoking area. The glass walls meet the ceiling, there is ventilation in the ceiling above the area, and instead of having open sections of the glass entryways, it now has motion activated sliding glass doors on both sides. I don't know if any of the other old glassed-in slot areas that were designated smoking areas on the A,B or C concourses have been converted back into designated smoking areas, but as a smoker, I'm happy to see an airport that is making a small effort to reverse the trend of the last 2 decades to once again treat smokers as people instead of lepers.

I know people who swear that the slots inside the smoking areas are loose.

This is an area where nonsmokers' rights have gone too far IMO, and have become majority bullying. As long as smoking rooms are adequately sealed off with separate ventilation, this is as things should be. Just as restaurants that have spent thousands of dollars to provide adequate separation of smokers from nonsmokers shouldn't have been forced to go nonsmoking.

But the one area where smoking bans should be imposed is casinos. In cases where separation of smokers and nonsmokers is impossible or extremely impractical, the law has to favor nonsmokers. Casinos should be put in the same category as movie theaters, sports arenas, public transportation, etc.

AMEN to that riverrat !

I believe the reasoning behind total bans instead of separate facilities is that workers would either have no choice, or would be coerced into working in the smoking rooms and that would jeopardize their health. And even though it would seem to make sense to allow smokers to work where smoking was allowed, there is the possibility that a non-smoker would need to take the job because it was the only one available. I'm in no way advocating that position, just stating my understanding of it.

As for McCarran, I have not seen the "C" lounges open again, and I was last there in November. But it could be worse: Indianapolis doesn't allow smoking ANYWHERE on the property. Not even in your car as you are driving through. Now while I don't particularly like some of the no smoking rules, I can understand most of them. Not allowing smoking within "X" feet of the doors makes sense to me, and isn't that big of a deal. But denying people a place to smoke, even outside in the cold and 100 feet from any entry, who have waited through security, flight delays, a long flight and then baggage claim is just cruel.

Do non smoking areas in casinos have the same good games? link

I was flying out of Indy not too long ago. I got my boarding pass, checked my bag, and went outside to have a smoke before going through security. I lit up, and within about a minute, an airport cop cruised up on a Segway to tell me I couldn't smoke there. I asked him where I could smoke, and he told me it was illegal to smoke anywhere on airport property. He gave me two choices - put out my smoke or accept a $50 ticket. He wouldn't tell me where I might be able to smoke within walking distance, which was a third alternative. I went back into the terminal and found an information desk. I asked the info lady where I had to go to smoke. She told me I couldn't do that anywhere on airport property, inside or outside. I said I could understand some restrictions on inside smoking, but outside didn't make any sense to me. Then she said "don't tell anyone I told you this" (she was serious, like she could lose her job for providing the info) "go to the end of the terminal building and walk across the street to the Hyatt."

That's where I would suggest that tobacco taxes should not be included in general tax pools. If smokers are paying for public facilities through obscene tax rates on the products, some accommodations should be made for the use of those legal products in or around those places.

Well, Bob... the way things are going soon you won't have this problem. theyre just going to make smoking illegal and tobacco illegal. then youll have nothing to gripe about anymore.

Never... they make way to much money of taxing tobacco...

there are many cities now that ban all smoking including open areas... including beaches.

look at all the smoking bans including outdoors... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_United_States