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31 March 2007
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Eye Smoking Lounges To Comply With Partial
Ban
The days of Atlantic City
Casino
patrons puffing on a cigarette while pushing buttons on a
slot machine or shuffling stacks of chips may be coming to
an end in nearly half this resort's gambling
halls.
In two weeks, the city's
11 casinos must comply with a new law restricting smoking to
no more than 25% of the gambling floor.
At least five of them plan
to comply with the ban by creating nongambling smoking
lounges, where patrons can go to light up, have a smoke, and
then return to the tables or slots.
Other casinos have decided
to wall off sections of their casinos where patrons will be
able to smoke while gambling, but the lounges are seen as a
cheaper, easier way to satisfy both the law and casino
employees, many of whom have vehemently complained about
having to work around smokers.
"You get problems with
your sinuses, problems with your lungs,'' said Nate Chait, a
veteran Atlantic City table games supervisor, who claims he
and many co-workers have been sickened by secondhand smoke.
"Your eyes burn. You get sore throats. You get more
colds.''
The smoking lounges have
also won praise from anti-smoking groups who see them as
momentum toward a total smoking ban in casinos.
"We think this smoking
lounge idea makes good sense,'' said Peter Slocum, a vice
president of the American Cancer Society. "It is not
perfect, and some people are still going to be exposed to
toxic smoke. But not nearly so much as they are now, and
will be in other casinos which go with the fig leaf of a
75-25 split on the gaming floor.''
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