Video Poker 24/7 - Casinos Fighting Smoking Ban

Video Poker 247 - Casinos Fighting Smoking Ban

It doesn’t matter whether or not it is a full or partial smoking ban as far as Atlantic City casinos are concerned. They say that they are suffering from the number of casinos that are popping up everywhere, and adding any sort of restrictions on smoking is just making that worse for them. While players say that they understand the premise behind it, they would be just as happy in a casino that had not banned smoking.

Players can play the slots, or video poker games, etc. in separate sections for some casinos, and not so much in others. First the state banned smoking everywhere by in casinos, then the Atlantic City Council banned smoking in 3/4ths of the casino floor as well. Casinos say that when you think of casinos you think of smoking and the fact that they are banning it or putting any kind of restrictions on them at this stage is setting them up for failure with their competitors.

They are afraid that eventually the state is going to do a complete ban on indoor smoking and this will cause them to lose millions more in both revenue and the money that is being spent to make the casinos partially smoke free. Plus, because the smoking has gotten so much worse in those areas where it is concentrated now, their employees are saying that it is worse than it was before the ban.

Now the casinos have video poker games and slot machines, etc. for the non smoking people right next to the ones for smoking people. Some are planning on putting up enclosures, but others have just simply put velvet ropes or signs up designating which is which.

Now that Donald Trump has stuck his nose in it, it looks as though things are going to get worse for the casinos. He wrote a letter complaining about the restrictions and how they were driving gamblers to other states. This made the council mad and now they are looking to punish all of the casinos for Trump’s letter and enforce a total ban.

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