On the 15th anniversary of a state law that exempted Atlantic City casinos from a sweeping indoor smoking ban, opponents of smoking called for New Jersey s temporary ban to be made permanent.
“Casinos are learning to do business differently,” Bronson Frick, an official with the nonsmokers rights group, said in an online news conference. “In the year 2021, we take for granted that airplanes and restaurants should be smoke-free, even though that change took place relatively recently.”
He said 1,100 casinos in the U.S. do not allow smoking. Smoking is allowed in Nevada, but companies are free to set their own policies and some ban it.