Smoking to be completely banned in AC

[pokeraddict]

Here in South Dakota they have been trying to pass a smoking ban. We don't even really have one, you can still smoke anywhere that has alcohol. The first attempt at a ban was going to ban in everywhere and Deadwood threw a fit and it died. Then they tried to make it so if you had gambling then you would be exempt. It still couldn't pass and we have legalized video poker everywhere you look. They don't even let counties or cities make their own local laws.

It is annoying to go out to eat with the kids and the restaurant is smoky but if places are adult only then let them make their own choices. If you don't want to go somewhere because it is smoky that is your right. If there really was a market for non smoking casinos they would exist. The two casinos I've been to with non smoking areas (Cherokee NC and Mystic Lake MN) didn't look like they got much action. At Cherokee the non smoking table games had half the min bet the smoking ones did and they still couldn't get any action.

[winbig]

Maybe they'll realize they'll lose more money by driving the smokers away instead of driving non-smokers away?

[pokeraddict]

Originally Posted by winbig

Maybe they'll realize they'll lose more money by driving the smokers away instead of driving non-smokers away?

SD has a different issue then NJ does too. If SD banned smoking in the endless video poker halls all over the state and the casinos in Deadwood the reservations would have a huge advantage. The difference is the state gets 8% of the take in Deadwood + $2000 a year per machine and table. They also get half of the net win off all of the video poker machines that are in the hundreds of video poker halls (they call them casinos but they're really just depressing dives with 90% payback garbage machines) all over the state. They get none of the reservation's net win.

[swampwitch]

Good old Iowa just passed a smoking ban...public places, restaurants, and bars.
In the rinky dink little town I live in, we have two bars. In a few months, there will be no bars.
Here are the exceptions....

Casinos gambling area
Veterans Home, Marshalltown
Private residences
Hotels, motels 20 percent of rooms
Tobacco stores
Long-term care facilities
Outdoor work areas
Limousines
Farm tractors, trucks

Nice of them to allow smoking in tractors and trucks. No word on cars and golf carts.

Luckily for us, we have a VFW that's open to the public...technically, it's not a bar. But...it's a bar. The manager made some calls today. As long as there's a VFW member in the place at any given time, whoever's in the bar can smoke. She's practically giddy with the thought of all the business the VFW will get. She's already ordered a new pool table and dart board.

Pretty soon this town won't just be known for The World's Largest Popcorn Ball...it will also be known for the newly shuttered business that WalMart (25 minutes away) hadn't already ruined.