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By: Connie Townsend

Connie Townsend — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:39:34 +0000

Casinos should lift ALL anti- smoking bans if they so choose. They are private property and should not even comply with only ALLOWING smoking on 25% of the casino. They could also have NO smoking if they choose.( oh remember Revel, that did not go so well) I am pretty sure the casino workers KNEW that there would be smoking when they made the CHOICE to work there. If the workers don’t like the smoke they should find a new job, if the anti-smoking agenda goes forward you won’t have a job for long anyways. The main point is that the anti-smoking rules being imposed are null and void as they are repugnant to the constitution. The current anti-smoking agenda was a turning point in this country that we should have NEVER allowed to happen, this needs to be reversed. Whether you are a smoker or not the fact is that private property owners get to decide NOT federal, local or state governments, whether to allow it or not is up to the owners, then people can decide whether or not they want to enter either for work or gaming. This is NOT just about smoking. This is a Constitutional Republic! Stop complying with the all the tyrants!

By: Nicole Vitola

Nicole Vitola — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 02:13:00 +0000

I don’t think people, namely legislators, understand just what these employees have to face day in and day out. Dealers, in particular, can not stand back, walk away, or even wave smoke from their face without risking termination. Meanwhile, patrons are not required to wear masks and sometimes blatantly and purposely blow smoke right in the dealers’ faces especially after losing a hand. Yes…casino workers signed up for this, but once the Smoke Free Air Act of NJ banned smoking in virtually every place of public access, EXCEPT CASINOS, it became a matter of discrimination. This exemption sends a clear message that casino worker’s health is not nearly as important as profit. Ironically, Atlantic City just posted record breaking operating profits for the 2nd quarter of 2021, while Governor Murphy’s temporary smoking ban was still in place. Collectively, they made 11% more than the pre-pandemic 2nd quarter of 2019. Meanwhile, the 25% non smoking requirement is a joke because the casinos simply count closed games as non-smoking tables. At this point, there is no excuse, no logical reason, and no legitimate argument to keep Senate bill 1878 from advancing so we can finally close this inhumane, corrupt, and unsubstantiated loophole once and for all.

By: Michael J McFadden

Michael J McFadden — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 01:29:46 +0000

“Atlantic City casinos are adamantly against banning indoor smoking. Industry officials argue such a mandate would damper revenues, a claim anti-smoking advocates reject.”

Well, if the Antismokers believe this strongly enough, they should be more than happy to show their belief in what they claim to be true by signing a funding guarantee for the first few years (say 3 to 5) of an imposed smoking ban. If the organizations claim not to have the money to guarantee such funding, well, since they “know” that it won’t actually be needed, the paid personnel and exectives and board members pushing the ban should also be more than happy to show their belief with the weight of their pocketbooks.

Unless they’e lying. Then it might cost them money. In such a case they’ll simply try to ignore such an invitation to success… just as they’ve ignored it in every smoking ban battle where I’ve proposed it over the past 20 years. They know it would cost them money, their own money, and they know that the only money they’re willing to risk is “other people’s money.”

Come on Antismokers! Show your faith in what you preach and sign the papers that will get you your smoking ban! Heck, show your TRUE faith by guaranteeing the INcrease in revenue that you promise will come from all the nonsmokers who simply stay at home nowadays because of the deadly clouds of smoke in the casinos.

You’ll get what you want and you won’t have to pay a dime! *IF* you’re telling the truth that is.

You ARE, after all, telling the truth, right?

Aren’t you?

Michael J. McFadden
Philadelphia, PA