Poker Poker Poker!: [vpFREE] Re: Jean Scott's Frugal Vegas BLOG

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "caribou_123" <caribou123@...> wrote:
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> Please don't start spreading these misleading facts. The revenue
fall
> began BEFORE the smoking rules took effect in April, after the
> additional competition from casinso in PA and other areas increased
> earlier in the year. After the new new smoking rules took effect,
the
> revenue declines continued.
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> There is no accurate way to determine now how much is due to each
> reason, however the significant downfall BEGAN after the competition
> came online and before the smoking rules did.
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Your post would make an excellent press release by the heavily
financed elitists and social engineers who are pushing these smoking
bans. The Pennsylvania casinos are just what smoking ban proponents
are going to use to manipulate opinion. It's called "deliberate
misinterpretation." And they are very good at it. Have you ever
seen a smoking ban advocates press releases with headlines like
these?

"California Heart Attacks Up 5% First Year of Smoking Ban"

"New York Hearts Attacks Increase 6% First Year of Smoking Ban"

No, this stuff doesn't serve their cause. But in the little town of
Helena, Montana there were 315 hearts attacks in the six months prior
to the smoking ban and 195 heart attacks during the six months of the
ban. Smoking ban proponents grabbed this little bit of information
and ran with it creating press releases with the headline: "Smoking
Ban Cuts Heart Attacks 40%. It appeared in papers all over the
country and the national media picked up on it.

Which of the above statistical samples do you think should be used as
evidence?

Now, I've got some bad news for all of you smokers. And I throw
myself in with you because I'm a nicotine fiend from hell. WE'VE
LOST THE WAR!! We're like the South after Gettysburg. We're like
the Germans after the Allies breached the Atlantic Wall. We can keep
on fighting, but we're beat.

Smoking ban initiatives are popping up all over the country. The
people behind them are well financed, highly talented, and highly
dedicated. They have some brilliant tricks up their sleeves. All
they have to do is crack one town in a county. Their enemies, the
people who fight these bans, initially, are smokers and the
hospitality industry. But this changes if they can get an initiative
through in one town of the county. Smokers desert the towns bars,
restaurants, and gaming establishments for the businesses in the
other towns and unincorporated areas. Now the owners in a bid to get
their business back actually become allies of smoking ban proponets,
and politicians have something to run with besides the smoking issue--
it's called "creating an equal playing field" for business. Now the
rest of the county falls like dominoes. This is going on all over
the country.

Colorado is the prime example of how this is done on a large scale.
Denver was pushing through a smoking ban. All the smokers would just
flee to the suburbs. Denver has all the political clout in the
state, so they pushed through a statewide ban to protect Denver
businesses as much as they could.

But the business never comes back to the level it was. For small
business owners it's the difference between going through 20 kegs of
beer a week and only going through 10 kegs a week. A smoker is just
not going to sit in a bar if he can't smoke. The non-smokers just do
not flood in to take the places of the smokers.

If it is a casino the gambler is going to spend as much time outside
puffing away as he spends inside.

Business people are not opposed to these bans for ideological reasons-
-they are opposed because of the economic harm it does them. Rarely
do smoking ban advocates admit that these businesses are damaged.

When enough of these bans are in place, Congress will get involved
and pass a National Smoking Ban. It's just a matter of time. I know
it and the elitist social engineers pushing this agenda know it.
Their strategy is to take the country piece by piece at first then
steamroll on the end. Brilliant.

The hustler in me has kicked in. How can vpFREE'ers exploit the
situation? When business is down casinos tend to put in better paying
machines and run better promotions. Keep an eye on those
jurisdictions where business has been dropping.

For three years now, in the little town of Breckenridge, Colorado, it
is against the law to smoke in all buildings accessible by the
public. It is also illegal to smoke on the sidewalk. It is against
the law to smoke in the alley. It is against the law to go out
behind a building and smoke. It is against the law to go up on top
of a building and smoke. It is against the law to smoke while
driving through town. However, it is legal to smoke inside your
residence. Just don't light up on the front porch--that's against
the law.

And it's this kind of restrictive law that social engineers want to
see on the National level. They won't quit until it happens.