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wrote:
>
> 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.
> ============
> 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'
can
> 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.
> ============
> 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"...
reasons
> 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.
> ============
> 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?
>
Doom and gloom was predicted for Las Vegas when California got the
casinos, but it never materialized. And California is on track to
pass Nevada in gaming revenue in just a few more years.
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