Atlantic City Casino Workers Urge New Industry Leader to Support Smoking Cessation Indoors

Atlantic City casino workers supportive of finish indoor smoking at the IX gaming resorts are hoping a leaders commute at the Casino Association of New Jersey is in their favor.

Resorts Casino Hotel CEO St. Mark Giannantonio this calendar week was named chairman of the CANJ. The connexion is the lobbying radical representing the interests of the Atlantic City casinos in the New island of Jersey Trenton capital.

Giannantonio replaced outgoing Hard John Rock Atlantic City CEO Joe Lupo in the role. Lupo wheel spoke come out inwards defense force of casinos being allowed to let indoor smoking on upwardly to 25% of their gaming space. But resort workers aligned with “Casino Employees Against Smoking’s Effects (CEASE),” the non-profit-making leading the anti-casino smoking fight inward Atlantic City, hope Giannantonio mightiness follow to a greater extent open to their regulatory campaign.

It’s been stunning to regard the lengths to which CANJ has gone inward disregarding our health, still when the facts don’t backing claims most the economical consequences,” a CEASE alphabetic character addressed to Giannantonio this calendar week declared.

“We want Atlantic City casinos to thrive. We also need to live around for our kids and grandkids for many more years. We fright that continuing to piece of work in a smoke-filled surround will jeopardize that,” the CEASE letter, signed by the organization’s tierce co-founders Nicole Vitola, Pete Naccarelli, and Lamont White, continued.

Industry Claims Rejected

The ix casinos say a terminated smoking banning on their gaming floors would pose the properties at a private-enterprise(a) disfavour with casinos inwards nearby City of Brotherly Love where smoking is permitted inwards sure areas. The Atlantic City gaming industry argues that it’s already hard to attract gamblers to the New Jersey shore remote of the summertime months, and stripping a cay element of their operations — indoor smoking — would only when pee matters worse.

The CANJ commissioned a consider on what sorting of consequences a smoke-free mandate would have got on business. Spectrum Gaming Group concluded that an indoor smoking forbiddance would trail to an 11% simplification inwards yearbook porcine gaming revenue inwards the first-class honours degree 12 months after implementation. That, the critique reasoned, would guide to as many as 2,500 jobs beingness cut.

The casinos, as well as the gaming brotherhood that represents nearly 10,000 holiday resort workers, intellect that the consider provides factual information as to wherefore a smoking forbiddance should not live currently considered inwards Trenton. For the country to forcefulness the casinos to turn to the full smoke-free, the New island of Jersey Legislature would want to amend its Smoke-Free Air Act it passed inwards 2006 that includes a proviso allowing gambling casino smoking.

CEASE says the Spectrum study, which was paid for past the Atlantic Ocean City cassino industry, reached unjustified conclusions to only fulfill its client.

“A truly independent contemplate conducted past Las Vegas-based C3 Gaming released inwards June found that COVID-19 has changed client behaviour and that smoke-free casinos hold actually performed break financially than their smoking counterparts,” the CEASE alphabetic character stated. The C3 go over was not commissioned past CEASE.

Call to Action

Lupo sought-after(a) to discredit the CEASE campaign. During his computer address before the Public Relations Council of Greater Atlantic City inwards February, Lupo said that a smattering of anti-smoking cassino workers petitioning on the Boardwalk might non live full representative of the gaming working class strength as a whole.

I don’t believe that 30 people walking land the Boardwalk represents the 21,000 employees that are employed in the casinos,” Lupo said of an earlier CEASE event.

CEASE claims to now get “thousands of cassino dealers” and other resort workers supporting its smoke-free mission. The radical would greatly same to add together Giannantonio to its heel of supporters.

“As you lead off your land tenure leading CANJ, we urge you to pooh-pooh byplay as usual and instead occupy this chance to tie-up upwardly for what is right,” the alphabetic character concluded.