| NEWS |
| 26.03.2008 |
| Full Casino Smoking Ban to Be Enforced in Atlantic City |
The Council of Atlantic City is about to take the next effort to prohibit smoking in the gaming venues. This time, it is aiming at the full-scale ban, as partial prohibition is on stream for twelve months so far.
Early in 2007, full smoking ban met strong resistance from top officials of eleven city’s largest casinos. Therefore the injunction turned out to be a partial decision: smoking has been allowed only in 25 per cent of each casino.
Top executives of Atlantic City casinos admit that present-day push for a complete smoking ban may be demonstrating a nation-wide trend. They already blame the partial smoking ban, as it heavily contributed to an almost 6 per cent decline in gaming revenues of 2007. Gaming industry experts assume that full smoking may impose an even heavier burden onto Atlantic City casinos in terms of revenue decrease, reduction of jobs in the local gaming industry, and giving odds to the neighboring competitors, such as slot halls in Penn. State and American-Indian casinos in Connecticut.
According to the last year’s partial smoking ban, casinos of Atlantic City were obliged to arrange special smoking lounges equipped with sufficient exhaust ventilation systems. However, casinos do not show too much haste in arranging such compartments, as their estimation cost equals to millions of dollars, but the anticipated full smoking ban is likely to reduce the meaning of such rooms to zero.
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