Sammy and Frank are gone. The last time I was there the families on expense accounts outnumbered the hardcore.
Amazing to me was a baccarat table, high stakes, and NO SMOKING!!!!!
Meanwhile, on the edges of town, rooms full of chain smokers tugging away at the quarter slots.
Siegfried and Roy are in a nonsmoke room, and they need trucks to haul away their money!
Changes.
Smokers both. Sammy died of throat cancer (surely a horrible death), and Frank died of a heart attack (but also had cancer, and had suffered multiple strokes).
Possibly the least surprising factoid in the article is the mention that casino patrons were twice as likely to smoke as the population as a whole. People who think they can beat the odds in one arena probably think they can beat the odds in others.