Slot Machines and Smoking

There are two things that seem to go together like peanut butter and chocolate and they are slot machines and smoking. For years players have entertained themselves while playing the slot machines by smoking – and it was truly an accepted practice. However, somewhere along the way, people decided that this was not the way it should be and started getting upset about the combination.

Those that don’t smoke say that they have put up with the smoking at the slot machines for years and now that it has become so apparent how bad it is for you to inhale second hand smoke that they should not have to deal with it anymore. The casino employees are in agreement counting off the number of employees who don’t smoke who have been diagnosed with some sort of smoking related disease – and they don’t smoke.

So across the nation they have seen slot machines disappear from casinos – or they have seen smokers relegated to one small part of their casino. But the stakes are about to get even higher as Connecticut decides whether or not to ban smoking at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos. They may have been all for it before they saw how much other smoke free casinos have lost with the ban, because now there are rumblings that they may not be as behind it as they were before.

Since 1993 the casinos and their slot machines have brought in millions of dollars for the state. But if the bill goes through, as of October 1st 2011 the smoking ban would go into effect, and the slot machines would undoubtedly be less crowded than they are today.

 

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