Smoking bans and casinos

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 22 sept 08

[ProfoundMan]

The solution, of course, is to raise tobacco taxes another 50% to cover the revenue shortfall. /sarc

[mysterio]

And we call ourselves a free people...

We are not free and haven't been for some time. Electing the same two parties into positions of power for 150 years has consequences.

[GOP_Lady]

I will no longer go to the casino in Erie since only 25% of the casino floor is designated for smoking (50% would have been okay with me). The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania just lost tax revenue from me. I'll bypass Erie and head to an Indian casino in New York. People have to be realistic — you have to allow some places where adults can be adults. And if and when the ban becomes 100% in casinos, I'll stay home and play the game manufacturer's games online for free. This is now way past ridiculous.

[GOP_Lady]

I am going to Vegas next month. I can assure you that if it were non-smoking, I would not be spending the money to go there from Ohio. You are correct though, smoking in casinos is not the only reason for loss of revenue for them, but it IS a reason.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Just another Joe]

Give 'em an inch and they'll take...........The world.

It's already happened.

[elkfersupper]

Control freaks cutting off their own noses to spite their faces.

Gotta' love it.

During the last depression, we could at least go to a bar, drink and smoke. Now, going to a bar is an almost unacceptable risk and you dang sure can't smoke in there in most jurisdictions.

I'm starting to wish that these control freaks get their asses handed to them - if not in the courts or the legislatures, then on the street corners.

[Eric Blair 2084]

One could easily imagine Comrades Trotsky and Lenin musing that “once the ban on private property is universal, we’ll be fine.”

[Ramius]

[Sigh] At least some of us will remember, for a while, back to when it was free country.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

thanks for the ping, legs.