Hoping to Clear the Air in Casinos, Workers Seek to Ban Tobacco Smoke - KFF Health News
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Casinos in several states are fighting efforts to ban smoking, and trying to roll back existing anti-smoking laws. One planned facility even moved outside a city’s limits because of voter-approved smoking restrictions.

The instant Tammy Brady felt the lump in her breast in February 2022, she knew it was cancer. With no known genetic predisposition for breast cancer, she suspects 38 years of working in smoky Atlantic City casinos played a role.

“I was just trying to make a living,” said Brady, 56, a dealer and supervisor at Borgata in that New Jersey resort city. “You don’t think, you know, that you’re going to get sick at your job.”

Some casinos continue to allow indoor smoking even as the share of Americans who smoke fell from about 21% in 2005 to 12% in 2021 and smoking is banned in at least some public spaces in 35 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Still, 13 of the 22 states and territories that allow casino gambling permit smoking in at least part of their facilities.

Brady is among the casino employees, anti-smoking advocates, and public health experts who argue it is long past time to snuff out casino exemptions from smoking bans, given the dangers of secondhand smoke. But they’ve faced stiff pushback from some gambling industry leaders, including in Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, and New Jersey, who argue that smoking bans drive gamblers away — especially in places where patrons can go instead to a casino in a nearby jurisdiction that allows them to light up.

  • Melkath@kbin.social
    114·
    9 months ago

    Here’s information from only non-USA health organizations

    Oh, you mean all the countries that America at at least one point or another subsidized?

    The ones that have been fighting for America’s teat since WWII?

    No, surely you mean the ones who supposedly champion freedom above all else…

    Oh, none of those?

    Gotcha.

    • vantlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      Jfc. You’re a lot better at moving goalposts than showing anything reputable that contradicts decades of research by countless independent groups. Take some of your own advice: grow the fuck up. Have some respect for people other than yourself.

      • Sendbeer@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        One of your sources is CHINA which is openly antagonistic with the US about every opportunity they can get and their response is hurr durr those are all countries sucking up to the US.

        Meanwhile I don’t see him backing up any of his shit with sources.

        Save yourself some time. They’re just a shit troll.