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Old 03-03-2018, 10:44 AM
 
Location: Southern Nevada
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I'm not saying anything about the merits of vaping, or lack thereof. All I said was it didn't smell as bad as cigarettes.

Personally, I don't think anything like that is 100% safe, but I do know people that have kicked smoking that way and are better off for it. Lesser of two evils, maybe.
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Old 03-03-2018, 11:31 AM
 
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You know the casino insiders better than any of us. What do they say about this. As smokers become a smaller percentage of society, it would stand to reason that it would hit a tipping point. But what percentage of gambling customers are still smokers? How much revenue would be lost if the casinos made the smoker go outside to smoke?

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...for a smoke-free Strip casino. Just spent 5 days in Vegas and got home tonight. On day one (Sunday night) I got to the hotel lobby well away from the casino floor, spent less than 10 minutes checking in, then walked to my room which still avoided casino floor exposure. I noticed the smoke smell in the lobby and as I passed on small bar on my way to the elevators but its Vegas, one has to put up with this. Changed in the room and put those clothes in a drawer. Didn't use them again and packed them to go home this morning. Get home, open the bag and my wife specifically notes how smoky smelling my clothes from Sunday were. All from a hotel lobby and some public corridors.

This just has to stop. People all whining that resort or parking fees are going to get them, how about the smoke? How many people visit and say I'm never going again with this nonsense. Non-smoking sections of buildings are a joke when you can put up a bar in all corners where someone is toking away. Smoking is barred in most non-tribal casinos nationwide, how is not allowing smoking going to kill off Vegas visitors? How is it right that something that generates 30% of your revenue can't be risked to go smoke free at the expense of 100% of the experience at your resort?
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Old 03-03-2018, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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To me, smoking and casinos go hand in hand. It wasn't all that long ago that smokes were free for gamblers just like drinks. They tried the smoke free casino and it failed miserably. I think smoking is sort of Vegas. A little devil may care and put it all on red 3 and let it ride. I am a live and let live kind of person. And if smoke bothers me, I can go somewhere else. After all there are not many places where they can smoke anymore and conversely there are now lots of places that are smoke free. I still remember my uncle smoking in the grocery store. And every restaurant/buffet in town. There was no place I can remember where you couldn't smoke...you could smoke in your hospital room.

Eventually there will be no smoking anywhere inside. But for the casinos it will be a money motivated decision. They won't change things till it is financially advantageous to them. It's not quite time yet. When I take the smokers and their friends out of the casino, it still makes a huge difference in the number of gamblers. And the older smokers seem to gamble more than the younger crowd.

Hey, maybe some day they will be handing out wheat grass smoothies and kale chips. Have yoga classes in between poker sessions. Maybe slot machines with treadmills built in. One never knows. They will do what they have to do to make a buck!
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Old 03-03-2018, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets
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Old 03-03-2018, 09:15 PM
 
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It's Vegas. It doesn't rain very often. You might be waiting a while.

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Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets
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Old 03-03-2018, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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It's Vegas. It doesn't rain very often. You might be waiting a while.
A taxi driver can only hope
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Old 03-04-2018, 01:14 AM
 
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The rest of us can hope as well. I rarely go to the strip, but what I see there... Is Las Vegas! Good, bad, and ugly.
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Old 03-05-2018, 12:45 AM
 
Location: Summerlin South
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Just today in Summerlin, was driving behind a newer model Mercedes and ever few seconds or so, two HUGE puffs of vapor blew out the windows from the vaping drivers. How silly that looked!
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Old 03-05-2018, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Paranoid State
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As smokers become a smaller percentage of society...

I can only hope, but I'm not sure that trend will go on forever. The percentage has certainly declined, but it may have leveled off.

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From cdc.gov:




I suspect the push for smoke-free casinos is likely to come from OSHA rather than from customer demand.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/infograp...nfographic.pdf



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Old 03-05-2018, 05:48 PM
 
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If Steve Wynn really wanted to be a 'visionary', he would have opened Encore as smoke-free.

As for the OP, you may want to stay in a non-gaming property, such as Elara, Delano, Vdara, MGM Signature, Trump, Mandarin Oriental, or one of the Hilton or Wyndham Timeshares should you come back.

I'd really like to know if the Harrahs in New Orleans, that went non-smoking due to city ordinance actually smells smoke free.
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