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Old 12-31-2015, 08:27 PM
 
Location: los angeles county
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I remember 15 20 years ago, they made a big fuss about 2nd hand smoke. When I went then, I remember not seeing any smokers inside the casinos.

recent trip to vegas showed lots of smokers in the casinos.

Was smoking ever banned in casinos at some time?
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Old 12-31-2015, 09:09 PM
 
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Wish they would all ban them. Everytime I enter a casino, I exit with a bad cough.

Smokers are so damn selfish and inconsiderate. They think everyone should die of lung cancer like they will.
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Old 12-31-2015, 09:55 PM
 
Location: Ponderay, Idaho
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Smoking was banned at the Silver City Casino (located across the Strip from the Stardust Hotel and Casino) many years ago. The casino closed a few months later...


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Old 01-01-2016, 12:42 AM
 
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The smoking ban in Nevada does not cover casinos and never has. The state legislature repealed part of the smoking ban in 2011 that applied to restaurants that don't permit minors. Most states permit smoking in casinos, even if it is banned in bars and everywhere else. Reservations do not have to abide by smoking bans in the few states that ban it in casinos.

You'll have to go to Illinois, Ohio, Harrah's New Orleans, Aqueduct NY, Maryland, Delaware or Deadwood, SD to find smoke-free casinos. Card clubs in Washington, California and Minnesota also are but not the real casinos.
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Old 01-01-2016, 01:11 AM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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Wish they would all ban them. Everytime I enter a casino, I exit with a bad cough.

Smokers are so damn selfish and inconsiderate. They think everyone should die of lung cancer like they will.
I'm sure you'll never hear a complaint from the Chinese who come here to Las Vegas. Over there, 4400 people die everyday from insufferable air pollution, and the masks don't do you a lot of good. When they come here and enter a casino, even with people smoking, to them, it's like breathing in clean mountain air, in comparison!

So, if you should win an all-expense paid trip to Beijing, even staying in a 5-star hotel for a week, given you develop a bad cough from the casino's here, I'd turn the offer down if I were you!

Over there, after a week of breathing in that putrid air, it might be the last time you'd complain about smoking in our casino's here!
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Old 01-01-2016, 03:09 AM
 
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I remember 15 20 years ago, they made a big fuss about 2nd hand smoke. When I went then, I remember not seeing any smokers inside the casinos.

recent trip to vegas showed lots of smokers in the casinos.

Was smoking ever banned in casinos at some time?

Around that time frame strip casinos played around with non smoking tables and non smoking slot sections. It went down in flames due to being difficult to enforce by the employees and the policy negatively affected the business.
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Old 01-01-2016, 09:04 AM
 
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The smoking ban in Nevada does not cover casinos and never has. The state legislature repealed part of the smoking ban in 2011 that applied to restaurants that don't permit minors. Most states permit smoking in casinos, even if it is banned in bars and everywhere else. Reservations do not have to abide by smoking bans in the few states that ban it in casinos.

You'll have to go to Illinois, Ohio, Harrah's New Orleans, Aqueduct NY, Maryland, Delaware or Deadwood, SD to find smoke-free casinos. Card clubs in Washington, California and Minnesota also are but not the real casinos.
Colorado's casinos in Blackhawk, Central City, and Cripple Creek are all smoke-free (thankfully).
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Old 01-01-2016, 12:47 PM
 
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Colorado's casinos in Blackhawk, Central City, and Cripple Creek are all smoke-free (thankfully).
You're correct. I knew I was forgetting something.
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Old 01-01-2016, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Henderson, NV
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I used to deal at Foxwoods in CT. Inside that casino there were 6 distinct casinos (it's the biggest casino in the W. Hemisphere). One of those casinos was entirely smoke free. That included table games and slot machines. The other 5 casinos allowed smoking. If the casinos here were a little larger, I think that is a nice option to have.
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Old 01-01-2016, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Sunrise
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The dominoes continue to fall -- or perhaps "nails in the coffin" is a better idiom. Hawaii just raised the smoking age to 21.

David Y. Ige | DOH NEWS RELEASE: New tobacco prevention and control laws go into effect January 1
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