Smoking Banned in Atlantic City Casinos
The city council in Atlantic Cityvoted 9-0 to ban smoking in casinos. Casino employees cheered, because although casino players might be gambling away their daughters' college tuition, it would be really, really bad if they were smoking while doing so.
What these employees don't get is that no one forced them to work for the casinos. They knew precisely what they were getting into when they applied for a job there. It's like applying to be a dancer at a strip club and then petition the city council to make it so dancers have to be fully dressed while dancing.
The same goes for casino patrons. No one forced them to be at a place where others are smoking. You can't go to someone's house where you know smoking occurs, and when they refuse to stop smoking, go to the government to force them to stop doing it. Just don't go to the person's house. And the government has no business telling people what to do and how to make their own place more hospitable to others.
And all of this is coming from an avid non-smoker.
Paul Ibrahim
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Try being at a smoker's place in Korea or Japan, where everyone smokes. It does kill the fun for everyone, and there is nowhere to go without it. Its right that places can ban smoking, but then they'll suffer too much business. So is there any good way to protect the minority and majority (smoking sections).
A problem with smoking can be argued that it hurt's people ability to choose what they enjoy. If someone goes into a casino to gamble, they can't help but endure smoke as well. Usually in most places you can choose what you want to do in one place.
Importantly though....Ok, that whole 'you never choose to work in casino' argument has got to stop. Because of the high volumes of casinos in the area, a significant portion of normal job market is there. Those born in the area with little mobility (like most in AC) are statistically pushed into jobs in casinos based upon options available (like engineers graduating from our school had trouble finding jobs on the west coast because of distance). There is a force that pushes them to work there regardless of their wish, and in there they have to endure damage to their health. Comon, you took economics Paul, right?