Casino workers in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have expressed their anger with the New Jersey Legislature after lawmakers implemented tax breaks for casinos rather than move forward on a measure that would permanently prohibit smoking in the casinos. The smoking ban bill has sat with lawmakers in the state for over a year without action.
A group of workers from the city’s nine casinos marched to the state capitol in Trenton to form a protest, calling for approval of a bill that would end the exemption in New Jersey’s public health law that prohibits smoking in virtually all indoor places except casinos.
The state’s smoking ban was temporarily expanded to include casinos as part of the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020 but was lifted in July of this year.
Last month, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network released a poll it commissioned that showed New Jersey residents favored banning smoking in casinos by a margin of greater than 2-to-1.
In April, Atlantic City casinos voiced opposition to the proposed ban on indoor smoking. The Casino Association of New Jersey, the lobbying group that represents the nine casinos, said: “Banning smoking permanently would have long-term financial implications for the industry and the region.
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