mickeycrimm wrote:
If you are a smoking ban proponent, fine. I support you 110% in your
fight---as long as you are honest on the issue.
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Mickey,
I'll be honest on the issue---I swear. I live in Mpls. Our closest
gaming teepee offers crappy games, enough smoke to choke a horse, and
no booze! I visited my son in Chicago twice last fall and we didn't
go to any of the nearby casinos, even though we had plenty of time to
do so and enjoy playing blackjack together. This spring we're
planning another trip with 5 family members and at least 4 of us will
be going to a casino for a few hours of gambling. Yes, it's the same
crappy games they had before, but the big difference is that there is
no smoking---enough to make me forget about EV and just have some fun.
(There was also a smoking ban in restaurants passed last fall in MN,
and we've been to at least 6 restaurants that we would have never even
considered before the ban.)
I also honestly believe that if one of the upcoming new casinos in Las
Vegas had the balls to go non-smoking, the place would thrive, but
they won't...they'
make it on $500 million/year, don't you think you could make it on
$450 million/year? And yes, if I owned the joint, that's how it would
be run...and my staff and customers would love the place.
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Mickey earlier wrote:
But if one says to me ..."the smoking ban did not cause the loss of
revenue, they opened a casino in another state that took the
business"...
they will come up with instead of admitting the one true cause of the
loss of business, then I have no respect for these people. They are
intellectually dishonest. They ignore hard evidence when it doesn't
serve their cause and spew propaganda instead.
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This works both ways though. If we knew the answer to "What
percentage of revenue in AC casinos came from PA residents before the
ban and after the ban?," that would be the hard evidence we need.
Right now, neither side has anything but speculation, true?
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