Mount Airy Adds Smoking

The Mount Airy Casino Resort has found a way around the Clean Indoor Act and has been able to increase the amount of smoking area that they offer their guests. According to the Clean Indoor Air Act they are prohibited to offering smoking in a public place or a workplace – but there are some exceptions. Where food sales are less than 20% of the business – they can have more.

Well, the slot machine casino has managed to double the size of their smoking area because of a special exception in the Act. They were previously only allowed 25% of their slot machine area to be smoking, and now they have 50% of their slot machine area smoking instead.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has reviewed their floor plan for the slot machine area and has agreed that they are meeting the requirements of the Act. They are not alone in their attempts to add on to the slot machine smoking area, as all but one of the state’s seven casinos has asked to do so. The only one who hasn’t is Penn National – but talk is that they are considering doing so.

The exemption allows for them to increase the size of their slot machine smoking area if they can prove that the revenue at the slot machines in the non smoking area is less than those in the smoking area. The law says that they can submit their revenue figures and the state will make a determination as to whether or not they can increase their smoking slot machine area and reduce the amount that is non smoking.

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