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Now more than year after the start of the biggest recession since you know what, things are picking up. Though you enjoy playing online poker or other casino games in your favorite online casino, perhaps you’re considering returning to Vegas, Atlantic City, or your favorite gambling town. Well, not to rain on your mouse, but here’s yet another reason why you might be best served sitting your butt back on the couch in front of your computer.
This just in: the Wynn Casino on the famous Las Vegas Strip is being taken to court by one of its employees for overexposure to cigarette smoke. To compensate her for allegedly being subjected to countless hours of secondhand smoke and not being moved to a non-smoking section, this woman is seeking millions of dollars.
That’s not all-apparently her employer threatened her with disciplinary consequences were she to make an issue of it. I’ll give you a moment to start powering up your laptop.
Good times, right? Not so much. She was forced to offer gamblers complementary cigarettes and not complain when they blew smoke smack into her face. The only smoke you might worry about from an online casino is your hard drive melting from overuse. Nothing to sneeze at but that’s why computers have fans, right?
Hard to imagine brick-and-mortar casinos doing much about this as these places and cigarettes go together like, well, smokers and cigarettes. Even while smoking bans are common in big cities, casinos aren’t exactly big cities. When you’re throwing down hundreds or thousands of dollars on casino games, you’re going to want to add the vices of drinking and smoking, and that won’t change anytime soon.
So have fun in Vegas if you must. I’ll be playing online blackjack if anybody’s looking for me. With my nicotine patch.
Perhaps the US should consider a smoking ban in public plays like in the UK
No one’s at risk to smoke then!