No-Smoking Rule Begins at Shreveport Casinos, Call Renewed for Nevada Ban
After a year-long delay, a ban on smoking inward Shreveport, La., casinos began on Sunday. This comes as smoke-free advocates hold renewed their phone call for a smoking censor in Silver State casinos.
In June 2020, the Shreveport City Council passed Ordinance No. 51, the Smoke-Free Air Act, to prohibit smoking inwards bars, casinos, and gaming facilities inward the northwestern United States Louisiana city.
The human action was to have burden on Aug. 8, 2020. However, the banning was delayed until Aug.1, 2021, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some officials were interested the banning would eat away the client home and lead-in to gambling casino task losses.
This year, inward July, nearly a month before the banning was to start, City Council President James II Flurry introduced an amendment to appropriate smoking inward casinos.
At the time, Flurry told Casino.org a smoking forbiddance at Shreveport’s II riverboat casinos would drive customers crossways the Red River River to Bossier City. Gambling halls inward Bossier City take into account smokers to lightsome up.
“We have to get a raze playing field,” Flurry told Casino.org.
In 2020, Flurry voted to include casinos in the censor because the council thought Bossier City would fare the same thing, he told Casino.org. When that didn’t happen, Bossier City received an unfair advantage, Flurry said.
“Until both are doing it simultaneously, it’s non going to work,” he said.
On July 13, the City Council tabled Flurry’s amendment, significance casinos would follow included in the smoking ban offset this twelvemonth on Aug. 1.
Randy Hayden, a Louisiana-based consultant for Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, told Casino.org “a right marketing campaign” will pull nonsmokers to Shreveport casinos.
Nevada Mask Mandate
As the Shreveport forbidding takes effect, smoke-free advocates are urging Nevada officials to forbiddance smoking inwards Silver State casinos at present that a mask mandatory is inward shoes inwards to the highest degree of the state’s counties.
“It makes no signified to set aside gambling casino guests to take their block out and bump secondhand smoke—along with droplets carrying a potentially life-threatening disease—into shared indoor air,” said Cynthia Hallett, president and CEO of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, inwards a statement.
Following direction from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) has mandated face coverings inward public indoor settings inwards 12 of Nevada’s 17 counties that have mellow COVID-19 transmittal rates.
The mandate, which began Friday, includes casinos, and applies to people whether they are vaccinated or not. Charles Joseph Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, is among the 12 counties with a mellow transmitting rate.
Warnings About Las Vegas
As the delta variant spreads end-to-end Southern Nevada, health authorities inwards Los Angeles, Chicago, and Hawai'i hold cautioned against visiting Las Vegas because of its low-toned vaccination rank and rising infections.
Hallett said at present is the time to clamp pile on smoking in Silver State casinos.
It’s a mutual sentience step that will only facilitate us to finally pose COVID slow us,” she said.
Others postulate the determination to tour smoke-free should follow left hand upwardly to businesses.
“The casinos are common soldier property, and the option is upwardly to the owners,” a reader identified as Connie Townsend wrote inwards the commentary subdivision of a previous Casino.org story.
Some casinos on the Las Vegas Strip already forbiddance or demarcation smoking. Last year, Mungo Park MGM implemented a forbidding throughout the resort. The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas and new opened Resorts World Las Vegas allow smoking on the gaming floor, but prohibit it elsewhere.
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