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Casino workers applaud introduction of bill to quash indoor smoking in Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. (KCTV) - Casino workers across the Sunflower State have applauded the introduction of a bill that would eliminate smoking on casino floors in Kansas. Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects, an action group in Kansas, gave its stamp of approval on bipartisan legislation introduced on Tuesday, Jan. 30. The move would amend the…

Politics ・ 01 February 2024

iGaming Business

Fontainebleau Las Vegas opening points to growth in luxury visitors

The opening of the $3.8 billion Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino resort this week feeds the narrative that the Strip is becoming more of a destination for wealthier visitors. While previously known as a marketplace once relished by tourists for its inexpensive rooms and cheap buffets, that's now changing. November's inaugural Formula One race on the…

Travel ・ 15 December 2023

KSAT

Casino workers seethe as smoking ban bill is delayed yet again in New Jersey Legislature

TRENTON, N.J. - A bill to end smoking in Atlantic City's casinos that appeared headed for its first vote Thursday was delayed yet again when Democratic lawmakers said they did not have enough votes to advance it. They also said they would listen to alternatives proposed by the casino industry including enclosed smoking rooms in which no employee…

Law ・ 02 December 2023

The Sports Geek

Reasons Why Banning Smoking in Casinos Should Be Mandatory

Is it finally time for casinos to have a sweeping ban on smoking throughout the country? While smoky casinos have been a staple of Las Vegas for decades, health-conscious gamblers are seeking out smoke-free facilities in recent years. This is one reason why many of these gamblers are turning towards online casinos. Additionally, there have been…

Land-based ・ 11 August 2023

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The Nevada Independent

Indy Gaming: Aristocrat believes line of NFL slot machines will score a touchdown

Good morning, and welcome to the Indy Gaming newsletter, a weekly look at gaming matters nationally and internationally and how the events tie back to Nevada. If a colleague or associate emailed this newsletter to you, please to sign up and receive your own copy of Indy Gaming in your inbox. - Howard Stutz One of the features on new NFL-themed slot…

Industry ・ 02 August 2023

Fortune

Atlantic City casino workers support bill to ban smoking

Land-based ・ 23 March 2023

ABC News

Dealers with cancer beg for Atlantic City casino smoking ban

TRENTON, N.J. -- Tammy Brady began her career as an Atlantic City casino dealer at the age of 18. Now 55, she has stage 2 breast cancer. "While I'm not sure we will ever know the exact cause of my illness, I can't help but wonder if it would have happened if the casinos hadn't forced me to work in second-hand smoke," said Brady, who works at the…

Land-based ・ 13 March 2023

NBC10 Philadelphia

Dealers With Cancer Beg for Atlantic City Casino Smoking Ban in NJ

Tammy Brady began her career as an Atlantic City casino dealer at the age of 18. Now 55, she has stage 2 breast cancer. "While I'm not sure we will ever know the exact cause of my illness, I can't help but wonder if it would have happened if the casinos hadn't forced me to work in second-hand smoke," said Brady, who works at the Borgata…

Land-based ・ 11 March 2023

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Atlantic City casino dealers who have cancer beg for smoking ban

Tammy Brady began her career as an Atlantic City casino dealer at the age of 18. Now 55, she has stage 2 breast cancer. "While I'm not sure we will ever know the exact cause of my illness, I can't help but wonder if it would have happened if the casinos hadn't forced me to work in second-hand smoke," said Brady, who works at the Borgata…

Land-based ・ 11 March 2023

Review Journal

Atlantic City dealers with cancer want casino smoking ban

TRENTON, N.J. - Tammy Brady began her career as an Atlantic City casino dealer at the age of 18. Now 55, she has stage 2 breast cancer. "While I'm not sure we will ever know the exact cause of my illness, I can't help but wonder if it would have happened if the casinos hadn't forced me to work in second-hand smoke," said Brady, who works at the…

Industry ・ 11 March 2023

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Nevada casino smoking ban not likely; Atlantic City’s nonsmoking push continues

Table games dealer Nicole Vitola waited nearly 20 years to breathe easier while working at Borgata casino in Atlantic City. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit three years ago and smoking indoors was temporarily banned, she no longer saw large clouds of smoke but a casino filled with players. "In my eyes, there was no way they'd bring back smoking,"…

Land-based ・ 07 March 2023

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Nevada casino smoking ban not likely; Altantic City’s nonsmoking push continues

Table games dealer Nicole Vitola waited nearly 20 years to breathe easier while working at Borgata casino in Atlantic City. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit three years ago and smoking indoors was temporarily banned, she no longer saw large clouds of smoke but a casino filled with players. "In my eyes, there was no way they'd bring back smoking,"…

Land-based ・ 05 March 2023

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The Boston Globe

Workers renew effort to ban smoking in R.I. casinos

PROVIDENCE - Vanessa Baker, a gaming supervisor at Bally's Tiverton Casino, sees only two options as she fights to ban smoking at Rhode Island's casinos. "I am going to get fired or die because it's killing me," she said. Baker, 57, of Portsmouth, takes 10 medications, uses two inhalers, and now needs a nebulizer. She attributes her respiratory…

Law ・ 27 December 2022

Review Journal

Smoking ban no threat to casino revenue, report says

Two Southern Nevada gaming and tourism industry experts envision a time when Las Vegas casinos will ban smoking, but they say it won't happen overnight. And the gaming industry won't lead the effort, even after a Las Vegas company has issued a report suggesting that ending smoking in casinos will not result in significant financial harm to the…

Industry ・ 20 December 2022

iGaming Business

Tilman Fertitta takes Las Vegas

In a city long known for bigger-than-life figures such as mobster Bugsy Siegel, reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes and casino mogul Steve Wynn, Tilman Fertitta is the newest big player on the Las Vegas Strip. The billionaire Texas businessman and owner of Fertitta Entertainment, which owns more than 600 restaurants, hotels, casinos and other…

Industry ・ 14 December 2022

The Street

Las Vegas Strip Casinos Face Added Pressure to Ban a Popular Vice

Few people go to Las Vegas to have a nice, clean, healthy vacation where they pass on rich foods, alcohol, and other vices. In general, you book a Las Vegas Strip vacation (or business trip) to let your hair down a bit and indulge more than you do at home. The city has been dubbed "Sin City" because a Vegas vacation allows people to indulge in ways…

Land-based ・ 09 December 2022

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New Jersey Online Gambling

Smoking Inside Casinos In Atlantic City Will End, But When?

CEASE members would prefer, at this point, if New Jersey politicians would cease their backroom jibber-jabber and pass legislation that will, once and for all, ban smoking (of all stripes, including vaping) inside casinos. "We feel like it's going to get done, it's only a matter of time, but politics is holding it back and that's what we're trying…

Politics ・ 06 December 2022

The New York Times

Smoking and Gambling Go ‘Hand in Hand.’ But Maybe Not for Long.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Len Lombardo, 74 and retired, rests his cigarette against a black plastic ashtray as he pushes a $5 button on a high-limit slot machine at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. Nearby, a 62-year-old Pennsylvania woman on a winning streak takes a drag from a Newport, as does her sister sitting at the machine to her…

Politics ・ 01 December 2022

Rockdale Newton Citizen

Las Vegas Strip Casino Workers Seek to Ban a Popular Bad Habit

You can do anything in Las Vegas (more or less) but some employees want to end one vice that has long been associated with casinos. Las Vegas caters to every vice. The city caters to gluttony with its endless supply of restaurants and all-you-can-eat buffets that range from absurdly cheap to decadently expensive. Sin City has greed covered as…

Land-based ・ 28 October 2022

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Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts, MGM among companies lining up for Macao license.

Seven gaming companies will vie for six operational licenses in Macao, but at least one analyst expects all of the competitors will end up getting a piece of the action. The government of Macao on Friday announced six existing concessionaires - Las Vegas Sands Corp., Wynn Resorts Ltd., MGM Resorts International, and Chinese operators SJM Resorts…

Travel ・ 20 September 2022

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AC Casino Smoking Ban Debate Off After Panelist Backs Out

East Coast Gaming Conference officials have issued a revised schedule for the Sept. 21-23 industry event at the Hard Rock in Atlantic City. Gone from the list of panels was one called "Gaming Revenues Going Up In Smoke?" that was to debate the issue of banning smoking from all nine Atlantic City casinos. Panelists were to include Parx Casino…

Covid ・ 14 September 2022

Review Journal

Macao casino relicensing occurring as region recovers from shutodown of properties

Macao, the most lucrative casino gaming market in the world since 2006, is taking a page from an old Strip playbook. Remember those efforts to draw families to Las Vegas in the 1990s? Casino companies across the valley built thrill rides, roller coasters and Strip-front entertainment to attract audiences to their resorts. That's what's in store for…

Strategy Guide ・ 14 August 2022

The Press Of Atlantic City

Outdoor smoking only acceptable option, say advocates for closing casino loophole

LINWOOD - As long as there is no indoor smoking in casinos, and no casino worker is exposed to secondhand smoke, groups pushing to close the casino smoking loophole will help provide alternatives for smoking customers, representatives said Wednesday during a news conference. Held at the headquarters of the United Auto Workers at the Cornerstone…

Jobs ・ 04 August 2022

The Nevada Independent

Experts: Efforts to ban smoking in Atlantic City casinos wouldn’t succeed in Nevada

New Jersey legislation that would ban smoking inside Atlantic City casinos has led to competing research about whether such action by state lawmakers would further destroy the Boardwalk's gaming revenue. The heated debate has largely been ignored in Nevada, where just two casinos are smoke-free and any mention of a smoking ban meets heavy…

Land-based ・ 10 July 2022

New Jersey Online Gambling

Atlantic City Casino Smoking Ban Now Seen As Coming

Supporters of a ban on all smoking inside Atlantic City casinos were met with mixed news last week, as backing from New Jersey elected officials reached key milestones just as the legislature kicked off its summer-long break. Four more state senators and six more Assembly members signed on as co-sponsors to identical bills that would impose the…

Land-based ・ 05 July 2022

The Press Of Atlantic City

Majority of Legislature now sponsoring casino smoking ban bill

TRENTON - Half of state senators and 43 of 80 Assembly members have signed on to sponsor bills to end legal smoking in casinos. "We will keep this issue front-and-center over the summer and work to make sure it's a top priority when legislators return to Trenton in September," said Cynthia Hallett, president and CEO of Americans for Nonsmokers'…

Law ・ 30 June 2022

NBC News Online

Editorial by Scranton Times-Tribune: Coffin nail for smoking in casinos

State legislators addicted to easy money long ago rolled over for casino operators who claimed that they couldn't make money, and provide the state government's vigorish, without accommodating gamblers who are addicted to tobacco. So legislators carved out an exception for casinos to public health law that proscribes smoking indoors just about…

Covid ・ 29 June 2022

The Street

Will Las Vegas Strip Casinos Ban a Popular Bad Habit?

You can experience "pride" when you pull off some sort of improbable gambling beat, "greed" when you see your winnings pile up, "lust" during all sorts of R-rated performances, "gluttony" as you partake of the city's many fine culinary offerings (and its endless buffets), "wrath" when your losing or you can't get into one of those top-tier…

Land-based ・ 25 June 2022

Yogonet

Casino smoking bans no longer a cause of revenue drop, new report finds

As casino workers across the United States, in jurisdictions such as Rhode Island and New Jersey, call for smoking bans at their workplaces, operators and the industry argue the move would lead to potential losses in wins and job cuts. However, a new report by C3 Gaming argues smoking bans are no longer a threat to revenue. The report, issued…

Finance ・ 21 June 2022

8 News Now

Smoking bans no longer a threat to Las Vegas casino revenue

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - For decades, it was accepted wisdom in the casino industry that eliminating smoking would automatically lead to revenue declines and customer losses. But a new report examining how the coronavirus pandemic has changed gamblers' habits says that may no longer be the case. The report issued Friday by Las Vegas-based C3…

Land-based ・ 20 June 2022

25 News KXXV

Smoking bans no longer a threat to casino revenue: Report

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - For decades, it was accepted wisdom in the casino industry that eliminating smoking would automatically lead to revenue declines and customer losses. But a new report examining how the coronavirus pandemic has changed gamblers' habits says that may no longer be the case. The report issued Friday by Las Vegas-based C3…

Finance ・ 20 June 2022

The Nevada Independent

There’s a reason smoking is still allowed in casinos

There's a reason casinos are among the last remaining venues to still allow smoking indoors: Consumers tolerate it. (A small fraction even demands it.) Indeed, there has long been an understanding in the industry that non-smoking visitors are more than willing to tolerate the kind of smoke-filled environments that keep nicotine addicts feeding…

Land-based ・ 19 June 2022

Sent Trib

Smoking bans no longer a threat to casino revenue

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - For decades, it was accepted wisdom in the casino industry that eliminating smoking would automatically lead to revenue declines and customer losses. But a new report examining how the coronavirus pandemic has changed gamblers' habits says that may no longer be the case. The report issued Friday by Las Vegas-based C3…

Finance ・ 19 June 2022

The Arkansas Democrat

Smoking bans in casinos studied

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- For decades, it was accepted wisdom in the casino industry that eliminating smoking would automatically lead to revenue declines and customer losses. But a new report examining how the coronavirus pandemic has changed gamblers' habits says that may no longer be the case. The report issued Friday by Las Vegas-based C3 Gaming…

Sports ・ 18 June 2022

KTNV Las Vegas

Would smoking ban hurt casinos?

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - Smoke free zones have been few and far between on casino floors in Las Vegas which has sparked fierce debate among people who'd like to relax and gamble without being hassled by smoke or non-smokers. Non-smoker Marcus Stephens said it'd be nice if more casinos were smoke free so he didn't have to deal with the consequences of…

Travel ・ 18 June 2022

Penn Live

Smoking bans no longer threaten casino revenue, report says

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - For decades, it was accepted wisdom in the casino industry that eliminating smoking would automatically lead to revenue declines and customer losses. But a new report examining how the coronavirus pandemic has changed gamblers' habits says that may no longer be the case. The report issued Friday by Las Vegas-based C3…

Finance ・ 17 June 2022

GGRAsia

Junket exit, pandemic 2022 risk for APAC casinos: pundits

The year 2022 is likely to be challenging for bricks and mortar casinos in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, due to a combination of factors including the decline of junkets that have for years hosted Chinese gamblers in Macau and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, and the ongoing travel restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. That is according to a…

Covid ・ 31 December 2021