Workers group continues fight for smoking ban in Atlantic City casinos

[discolé monade]

That casinos will collapse if they can’t have smoking, and thousands of workers will lose their jobs. That’s just absolutely false.

[naraku360]

Why should filling a room with smoke be illegal?

It doesn't even smell like anything!

[Top Gun]

They still allow smoking in those shitholes? That's pathetic. 

[Jman]

  On 12/8/2024 at 12:30 AM, Top Gun said:

They still allow smoking in those shitholes? That's pathetic. 

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You don’t want people walking outside and realizing how much time they spent and money they lost.  
 

This is why I was never much of a gambler.

[André Toulon]

I don't know, if they keep having to pay those high ass set for life settlements to the savvy pawn shop patrons, it may be the end of them.

[1pooh4u]

They dgaf about the health of casino workers.  They want those old ass mummies sitting at slots getting drunk and gambling. That won’t happen if they gotta step out to smoke 

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

Those smoking bans really hurt all the restaurants and bars, huh?

"I love gambling! 

Wait, I'm going to have to step outside for a minute for a cigarette?

That's it, I'm never going gambling again!"

[smiradenius]

The casino workers aren't biting the issue from the correct side.  

All they really have to do is blame their COPD or whatever on workplace exposure and find a layer who would take it as a class action case.  Name a judge who isn't going to buy that story.

[MasqueradeOverture]

Why wait to lose your life savings at a casino when Robinhood exists?

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

I can't believe there's still any place that it's legal indoors. I thought it was banned pretty much everywhere given the studies showing the dangers of second-hand smoke coming out many years ago. That just ca-ca-ca-cray-zee there's somewhere that they're still fighting about this.

[smiradenius]

  On 12/16/2024 at 5:40 AM, Dark_Cloud_Overhead said:

I can't believe there's still any place that it's legal indoors. I thought it was banned pretty much everywhere given the studies showing the dangers of second-hand smoke coming out many years ago. That just ca-ca-ca-cray-zee there's somewhere that they're still fighting about this.

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You can go ahead and blame state and local governments for that one.

 

Meanwhile, local businesses that are not multi billion dollar corporations are hosting members only smoke easies. 

[Insipid]

  On 12/16/2024 at 6:03 AM, smiradenius said:

You can go ahead and blame state and local governments for that one.

 

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You say blame like the majority of people don't appreciate smoking be banned in most places. The world smelling like an ashtray is something even most boomers aren't nostalgic about.

[smiradenius]

  On 12/16/2024 at 6:11 AM, Insipid said:

You say blame like the majority of people don't appreciate smoking be banned in most places. The world smelling like an ashtray is something even most boomers aren't nostalgic about.

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Ask a lady who runs a smoke easy about that.

[Insipid]

  On 12/16/2024 at 6:13 AM, smiradenius said:

Ask a lady who runs a smoke easy about that.

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no

[scoobdog]

Smoke easy might be the stupidest possible name for the space between the dumpster and a telephone pole across from a back door.

[smiradenius]

  On 12/16/2024 at 6:58 AM, scoobdog said:

Smoke easy might be the stupidest possible name for the space between the dumpster and a telephone pole across from a back door.

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No, it's when the ban is violated  ndoors.  Not necessarily as fancy as the originals.

[discolé monade]

  On 12/16/2024 at 6:58 AM, scoobdog said:

Smoke easy might be the stupidest possible name for the space between the dumpster and a telephone pole across from a back door.

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you know....the 'smoke easy _{fucking tool} 3doors down from the 'speak easy' he also like to bring up. 

fucking

tool. 

[scoobdog]

  On 12/16/2024 at 11:46 AM, smiradenius said:

No, it's when the ban is violated  ndoors.  Not necessarily as fancy as the originals.

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Original what?   Bowling alleys?  Abandoned buildings with squatters?  Dive bars with illegal slot machines?

[discolé monade]

  On 12/16/2024 at 5:38 PM, scoobdog said:

Original what?   Bowling alleys?  Abandoned buildings with squatters?  Dive bars with illegal slot machines?

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none of which smell of smoke, btw. 

[smiradenius]

  On 12/16/2024 at 5:38 PM, scoobdog said:

Original what?   Bowling alleys?  Abandoned buildings with squatters?  Dive bars with illegal slot machines?

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There had been speakeasies, the original and now there are smoke easies, not original. 

[discolé monade]

reported for using archaic speech.