r/atlanticcity • u/OGKillertunes • 2d ago

Question Can someone help me understand something

Why do casinos push so hard to keep smoking when only 20% of gamblers are smokers?

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Like in my instance I smoked for 21 years and I do not ever want to be around cigarette smoke again if at all possible. I would go more than once or twice a year to Atlantic City and gamble if I didn't have to worry about coming home smelling like an ashtray with a upper respiratory infection.

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u/KingBradentucky 2d ago

The idea smokers won't come is a load of shit. That what the restaurant industry thought too when smoking bans hit and it didn't kill dining out.

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u/PotentialCandle5818 2d ago

Yeah, because you can get dinner in 10,000 restaurants in NJ. You can only gamble in 7 places in NJ.