Casinos Smoking Ban

It’s now the one-year anniversary of a vote in the state Senate to move forward with a bill that would end smoking in the nine casinos. But since then, it has gone nowhere, and casino workers aren’t happy. “It’s been a year since the Senate health committee voted to protect us from secondhand smoke, and yet we’re still waiting for action from Senate leadership,” said Pete Naccarelli, a table games dealer at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa and a co-founder of the anti-smoking group CEASE.The casinos and the largest casino workers’ union in Atlantic City, Unite Here Local 54, oppose a smoking ban, saying it will cost the industry money and jobs.