{"id":7091,"date":"2011-07-07T16:05:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T00:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2011-07-07T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T00:07:11","slug":"where-theres-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/where-theres-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Where there&#8217;s smoke &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/25877464?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/25877464\">Fighting For Air: Secondhand Smoke in Casinos<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1475601\">RPCI Health Behavior-Paul Hage<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No question about it, the issue of secondhand smoke is the greatest moral dilemma before the casino industry &#8230; especially since eliminating it means making a considerable sacrifice on the bottom line. This latest volley employs some wild and dubious <!--more-->assertions. (Private-sector and tribal casinos growing &#8220;at an exponential rate&#8221;? <em>Ha!<\/em>) But it also puts a human face on the debate. The gambling industry is heavily reliant on smokers &#8212; practically enslaved to them, in fact &#8212; but the corollary to the sound fiscal arguments for permitting smoking on casino floors is the knowledge that we&#8217;re shooting dice with people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting For Air: Secondhand Smoke in Casinos from RPCI Health Behavior-Paul Hage on Vimeo. No question about it, the issue of secondhand smoke is the greatest moral dilemma before the casino industry &#8230; especially since eliminating it means making a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/where-theres-smoke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,14,117,7,9,19,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7094,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}