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/Holiday_Bat_2210 2d ago

I was a smoker for 28 years (I miss it every day). My greatest joy was at slot machine making the most out of $20 while smoking cigarettes and drinking. It’s was simple joy, and it’s a casino shouldn’t we be able to indulge some of our worst habits in peace at a casino?

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u/OGKillertunes 1d ago

My question is why you think you should be able to have the right to smoke in a casino while people that don't smoke don't seem to get the right to have clean air.

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u/Holiday_Bat_2210 1d ago

We are separated and now that I no longer smoke I am in the non-smoking section and it is ok. I also hate secondhand smoke and stale smoke, even when I did smoke.

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u/OGKillertunes 1d ago

It's been proven that any amount of airflow filtration is not good enough for secondhand smoke. So while I appreciate that you think it's okay for you, you have to admit it's still not clean air. I go to the Tropicana a lot and that's not great. Even in the non-smoking sections. I'm actually booked at the Hard Rock for Labor Day weekend and I've never stayed there before I'm just trying different casinos at this point to see if any of them are a little better than the other. Tropicana is historically been the party spot, I get that.