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Smoking in Atlantic City Casinos Still Issue of Controversy
ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY --
A poll conducted by Farleigh Dickinson University showed the the public remains split on the issue of whether to deny freedom of choice to smokers in New Jersey casinos. Only thirty-nine percent said smoking should be banned throughout casino gambling floors, but this minority remains extremely politically active and vocal.
Meanwhile, nine percent suggested allowing smokers to light up wherever they wish, while forty-seven percent believed smoking should be continued as is, with designated areas for smoking and non-smoking.
An anti-smoking bias was revealed in statements by the poll's director, Peter Woolley, who was quoted in reports as saying, "Smoking is itself a kind of gamble, so maybe it belongs in casinos." The validity of poll numbers could be questioned if this disdain for smoking infiltrated the questioning process.
Anecdotal evidence establishes that table games and slot machines in smoking areas tend to fill much faster and stay busier than non-smoking areas. Results showing double-digit decreases in revenues at casinos adopting smoking bans have been documented across the country.
The smoking ban in Atlantic City has been potponed a year to prevent hurting state tax revenues at this delicate economic time. If the state knows that patrons stop playing when smoking is eliminated, isn't that the true voice of the people?
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| Posted by CarolT on 02/01/2009 01:32:42 AM EST |
The real issue isn't "freedom versus public health," it's ANTI-SMOKER SCIENTIFIC FRAUD. More than 50 studies show that human papillomaviruses cause over ten times more lung cancers than they pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to this virus, so the anti-smokers' studies, which are all based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires, have been cynically DESIGNED to falsely blame passive smoking for all those extra lung cancers that are really caused by HPV.
http://www.smokershistory.com/hpvlungc.htm
The anti-smokers have committed the same type of fraud with every disease they blame on smoking and passive smoking, as well as ignoring other types of evidence that proves they are lying, such as the fact that the death rates from asthma have more than doubled since their movement began.
http://www.smokershistory.com/newviews.htm
And it's a lie that passive smoking causes heart disease. AMI deaths in Pueblo actually ROSE the year after the smoking ban.
http://www.smokershistory.com/etsheart.html
The government has no right to restrict peoples' liberty without a compelling justification. The anti-smokers have no such justification, so THEY COMMITTED SCIENTIFIC FRAUD TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC.
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| Posted by Pete N on 02/01/2009 03:25:15 PM EST |
| Well I see Carol hasn't missed this site to fill with her cut and paste spam. Come on Carol not even big tobacco tried to sell this crazy virus story of yours. Most smokers and non-smokers are smart enough to realize that smoking related diseases aren't caused by a virus that only affects a very small percentage of the population. |
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