[vpFREE] Re: Smoking Bans - WAS Jean Scott's Frugal Vegas BLOG - 13 JAN 2008


> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bob Sommer wrote:

> > >I think if a single strip casino decided to go "smoke free" it
> would
> > >enjoy an increase in business and profits if all else stayed the
> same.
> > >Yes they'd lose some smoker business but gain all the non-
smoking
> > >couples they could handle because they'd be the only one. I
> believe
> > >we'll see a drastic move like this from a property at some time
in
> the
> > >future -- likely one where profits are slipping in a last ditch
> attempt
> > >at publicity and recovery.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > The last casino in Las Vegas that tried going smoke free did not
> last
> > long before going broke, which was not that long ago.
> >
> > Why doesn't everyone really say what outlawing smoking really
is?
> It's
> > social engineering and politicians that want power over people to
> take
> > away their rights. Seat belt laws, helmet laws and many more
> similar
> > laws are all the same.
> >
> > Bob

I vpFree@yahoogroups.com "gimmeaquad"

> But that was well before AC enacted legislation as well as well
> before the bars/taverns had to adapt to it. Let's hope we see some
> property have the balls to convert to smoke free.
>
> GimmeaQuad
>

In Nevada practically all of the politicians are owned by the casino
industry. So you are probably going to have to wait until the
National Smoking Ban goes into effect before smoking is knocked off
the casinos floors in Nevada. But the NSB is probably not that far
down the road.

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