Smoking was most likely a matter of when, not if. The Casino Association of New Jersey, said he recognized that ending Giannantonio, the chief executive of Resorts and the new president of The move, it would definitely push nonsmoking forward.”

To set the trend, but I don’t have to accept it. Who don’t want to come into a smoky casino.”Ī little guy out in the middle of a desert,” he added. 'But that’s years of excluding a large part of the public New Mexico, who eliminated smoking at his facility after the onset of Old paradigm used to be: Well, smokers play more,” said JohnĬirrincione, the chief executive of the Santa Ana Star Casino Hotel in Last large refuge for smokers in the Northeast. Smoke-free since the coronavirus pandemic, leaving Atlantic City as the Pennsylvania, some leading casino operators have opted to remain Mohegan Sun andįoxwoods in Connecticut and the four casinos operated by the Navajo Nation, the country’s largest tribe,Īre now smoke-free. States, including New York and Massachusetts, already ban smoking inĬasinos, as have many Native American-run gambling hubs. Are on Atlantic City,” said Cynthia Hallett, president and chiefĮxecutive of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, a nonprofit that overįour decades has pressed for smoke-free casinos, airplanes and bars.

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