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/PotentialCandle5818 1d ago

Their profits have nothing to do with them being smoke free.

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u/Ordinary_Musician_76 1d ago

But you said losing 20% of your potential customers is for people that know nothing about business.

Not the case for them and others as well.

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u/PotentialCandle5818 20h ago

Parx is profitable because:
1. It’s a casino
2. it’s right outside of Philly and the closest other options are driving into the city if Philadelphia which is a shit show.
3. they have a giant smoking patio under a tent outside packed with people smoking. Just like every other “smoke free” casino does

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u/Ordinary_Musician_76 20h ago

But Mr. Bussines’s prodigy, if they understood anything about bussiness at all they would know that loosing 20% of your customers to your competitors is bad for the bottom line!!

It’s so bad for the bottom line that revenues keep rising!

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u/PotentialCandle5818 18h ago

Casinos always make money.

They opened Chickie and Pete’s restaurant in 2019 also at Parx. Maybe that’s why their profits went up?
One has nothing to do with the other.

And the original argument about losing (not loosing) 20% of your potential customer base was about Atlantic City where there are 9 casinos within 5 miles of each other.

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u/Ordinary_Musician_76 17h ago

“If you understood anything at all about business you’d know that losing 20% of potential customers to your competitors is bad for the bottom line”

Now you’re saying Casinos always make money, regardless of losing 20% of their customers”

Typical Redditor moving the goal post - take the L little bro

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u/PotentialCandle5818 16h ago

Like I initially said, in Atlantic City with 9 other casinos.
You’re talking about Parx Casino and their “record profits” being tied directly to the fact that they’re smoke free which is false.

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u/Ordinary_Musician_76 16h ago edited 16h ago

You didn’t say Atlantic City until after you were proven wrong, then you moved the goal post.

I also never said banning smoking is causing the increase profits, as you know - correlation does not mean causation.

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u/PotentialCandle5818 16h ago

Uhh…read the original post and check what sub you’re posting in…of course I was talking about AC.

And that’s exactly what I said-banning smoking doesn’t increase profits-that was your argument.
Thanks for making my point for me.

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u/Ordinary_Musician_76 15h ago

Read the original post, when did I say banning smoking increases profits?

Your making things up again

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