Smoke free gaming, is a no brainer. Nevada is the only state in the US, and perhaps only place in the world that has recently relaxed anti-smoking laws. The time for a smoke free world is now; smoking should only be permitted in designated areas that are isolated from the rest of the population.
According to many governmental bodies and major national organizations, second-hand tobacco smoke kills more than 50,000 Americans each year, cripples or disables hundreds of thousands, and unnecessarily imposes billions of dollars in health care and other related costs on the American economy — most of which are paid by non-smokers in the form of higher taxes (for Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) as well as grossly inflated health insurance premiums. Indeed, every scientific or medical body which has studied the issue, both here and abroad, has concluded that second-hand tobacco smoke kills non-smokers who inhale it.
Separate smoking (and no-smoking) rooms in casinos and other places where gambling is permitted also are not a viable or fair solution since, in addition to the gamblers, the dealers, waiters, and other employees who work in such rooms are subjected to levels of tobacco smoke far higher than in most casinos where smoking is permitted, since all of the smokers are concentrated into a small area with a very limited volume of air.
Smoking in now prohibited in the great majority of bingo parlours, and in more than one third of casinos and race tracks in states where they are permitted. Despite this, casinos, race tracks, and bingo parlours remain very profitable.
