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Atlantic City briefly implemented a smoking ban in 2008, but quickly repealed it after the casinos experienced a drop in revenue of nearly 20% in two weeks, according to Seth Ptasiewicz, an ...
With their push to end smoking in Atlantic City's casinos going nowhere fast in either the courts or the state Legislature, casino workers and supporters of smoke-free gambling halls demonstrated ...
Casino workers hold a rally in Atlantic City, N.J. on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 to call on the state Legislature to pass a bill to ban smoking inside the nine casinos.
The suit, filed earlier this year, sought an injunction that would ban smoking in casinos in Atlantic City in accordance with the indoor smoking ban implemented as part of the state's Smoke-Free ...
The New Jersey Senate health committee approved a long-delayed bill to impose a smoking ban in Atlantic City's nine casinos. It was the first step in a long chain of necessary approvals, and it ...
In New Jersey, that has included pushing lawmakers to legislate a ban, and filing a lawsuit in state court to overturn an indoor smoking law that exempts casinos. Proposals from Trinity Health, a Michigan-based health care system, and the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation will be voted on by shareholders of Boyd Gaming and Bally's ...
Seth Ptasiewicz, an attorney for casino workers who want to keep the current smoking policy, said steep economic declines have followed the imposition of smoking bans in several places, including ...
The primary goal of the bill was to prohibit smoking in indoor public places and workplaces to benefit the public interest. [7] The Smoke-Free Air Act stated that separate sections for smoking and nonsmoking sections in workplaces and indoor public areas were not eliminating the health hazard to nonsmokers and banning smoking altogether in these areas was a necessary solution to this problem.