If they are personnaly weak, what does that make you? A legend in your own
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On Feb 16, 2008 2:49 AM, tralfamidorgooglycr
tralfamidorgooglycr
> It's certainly to be expected that casinos are perhaps the single
> most-affected businesses when smoking bans take effect. That's
> because smokers are ideal casino customers--personal
> especially in resisting addictive behavior; self-indulgent, and
> indifferent to societal norms. In other words, the perfect target.
> Smokers will gamble longer, less skillfully (because of the constant
> attention they are paying to their cigarettes), and at worse casino
> games than nonsmokers. They will lose more, play a losing game
> longer, and continue to play it badly, without making any effort to
> improve--the hallmark of an addictive, narcissistic, self-deluding
> personality, when exposed to gambling.
>
> So it isn't surprising that casinos lose revenue when they lose
> those people. But the question is, is this a temporary loss? Is this
> compensated for (eventually) by increased business from people who
> now find the casino environment more pleasant, and will patronize
> those establishments when then might not have before?
>
> Also, should the overall benefit to people's health be considered
> from a monetary point of view? Certainly, "x" number of people are
> now NOT going to die/get sick when they would have without a smoking
> ban--both customers and employees. Is this worth the loss of
> revenue, especially if that loss is temporary?
>
> And what is the economic value of people being able to patronize a
> casino without simply being annoyed and irritated by cigarette
> smoke? It's real, but how can you quantify it?
>
> The experiment might best be tried by a single Vegas casino going
> nonsmoking and comparing its revenue stream over some longish period-
> -say, a year. This would only be valid if said casino were already
> successful; a few Nevada casinos have gone nonsmoking, but these
> were desperate attempts to revive dying establishments. I'd like to
> see what would happen if, say Sunset Station or AZ Chuckie's West
> (one of the stinkiest casinos in all Christendom) had the guts to go
> nonsmoking. I would predict that patronage and revenue would, after
> an initial downturn, skyrocket.
>
>
>
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