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Casino Visitors Anticipate Atlantic City Smoking Ban
On September 14th, 2007, the playing environment at the Showboat Casino-Hotel will be a lot different this coming spring and customer Jackie Evans could not be more grateful. Evans, from Osceola, Indiana, visits Atlantic City about three times in a year but said that she plans to visit more often because of the smoking ban.
She is happy that she will not smell like cigarette smoke when she visits the Showboat casino and the other casinos in the area. But Willis DeBouse from Pittsburgh said that the casinos in Atlantic City could suffer greatly if smoking will be prohibited in the casinos.
That is one of the scenarios that casinos in Atlantic City that is wary of. They also fear that the slots establishment in Philadelphia which permits smoking will attract customers from Atlantic City. Slots parlors from outside the state are already affecting the casinos in Atlantic City.
The City Council had been set to enforce the smoking ban earlier this year but backed down under protest from the casino industry, which said it feared losing 20% of their profits and will be forced to cut 3,400 jobs if the smoking ban is enforced by the council.
Under the compromise between the council and the casinos, smoking must be prohibited from 75% of the interior of the casinos. The law also requires casinos to put physical barriers to keep the smoke from bothering the rest of the customers and employees from the non-smoking areas of the casino.
Harrah's Entertainment, which owns the Showboat casino and three other casinos in Atlantic City, plans to comply by constructing smoking lounges. The Tropicana Casino and Resort and the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino also plan to do the same.
The Atlantic City and Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort plan to hedge their wagers by constructing a smoking lounge at each of the casino facilities, one in their slots area and one at the casino table games area.
The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort and the Trump Marina Hotel Casino also plans to do the same. The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa is the only Atlantic City casino that has not yet announced what will be their plans to follow the law.
The changes were finalized because of complaints from casino employees who hate to work in smoke-filled rooms. Harrah's said that they will not force anyone to work in smoke filled casino rooms. Unions plan to have that promise in writing.
Wednesday, October 03 , 2007
Brian Letendre