DISQUS

Jeremy · 8 months ago

if the Nevada government had to pay for Health Care like the BC government... there wouldn't be much smoking allowed in public places.

That said... I don't smoke and generally hate it... but I like that in Las Vegas, everything flies. no rules. Sucks that people smoke, but it is fantastic that i can walk the street with a giant novelty plastic guitar filled with syrupy sweet margarita.

Roger Kingkade · 8 months ago

Smoking is legal. So is wearing a maks which filters impurities from the air. I wonder when those who are militantly concerned about the effects of second-hand smoke will start to take their health into their own hands and defend themselves against smoke rather than attack those who are exercising their legal right to enjoy life as they see fit.

If you want change, get tobacco banned. Until then, I will vehemently defend the right to smoke.

Geoff · 8 months ago

Was at the MGM last month and the "non-smoking" tables were never open. That, and they are right next to the smoking tables.

Should make the "High roller" rooms into non-smoking tables, nobody going in there anyway. :)

Shannon · 8 months ago

With the economy in the state that it is in you would be surprised to see the effects of a smoking ban. In many other regions across the country, smoking has been banned in casinos and the results are staggering. In AC alone, there was a partial ban and the numbers plumetted in the double diggets. Same results have been shown in Illinois, most of the casinos have seen significant decline in performance. Couple that with a bad economy and states are going to be hard pressed to ban smoking since so much of the casino revenue goes to the state coffers.

Although I don't smoke, I have seen how it affects the bottom line and don't want to see it banned right now. You have a choice to enter a casino or not, and if you are that against the smoke than you shouldn't go at all IMO. And although I see the position for the employee, they also have the option of working elsewhere.

buzz · 8 months ago

Public health > Casino profits

Eric · 6 months ago

If you had any sense, you'd go to the casino and breathe in the smoky scent of the happy, smoking tourists puffing away at their Marlboros while they slap the dollars down on the blackjack table.

Believe this: You alienate the smokers, the non-smoking public WILL NOT replace them. It just doesn't work that way. That kind of backfill would take decades if it happened at all.

Las Vegas is an economy based on sin and vice. Embrace it. People go there to gamble, drink, smoke, and watch topless girls dance. They go there to enjoy other things that are less legal, but which are readily available in Las Vegas. If you folks in Sin City had an ounce of sense, you'd make all that legal, as well, and tax the heck out of it all.

You've got gambling numbers way, WAY off, and you can't afford to do anything to drive people away. Do everything, and mean EVERYTHING you can do to make those smoking, drinking, gambling and fornicating sinners happy, because they are your bread and butter.

You all want to ban smoking in public places because it's "bad for people"? What are you thinking? Ditch the moral majority nonsense in Winnemucca and let Vegas get down to it's core business. Don't like the smoke? Go live in a place where sin isn't industry #1.

I don't smoke. I've lived in Vegas, and it ain't that bad, you whiners.

buzz · 6 months ago

Smokers make up less than 1/3 the clientele. If 1/3 are doing something that affects the 2/3 adversely, I'd do everything in my power to keep the majority happy.