If you don’t smoke and don’t like secondary smoking you’ll probably try to gamble in smoke-free casinos. Are there any in Las Vegas?
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Let’s dispel a myth immediately: casinos do NOT need to allow smoking to be successful. In Vancouver (Canada, where we have spent significant amounts of time in the last few years) there are plenty of successful casinos, filled with people (many of them hard-core regular gamblers), and they are all non-smoking. They have small smoking areas but the gambling floors are all non-smoking. They are successful, they are fun and they make tons of money.
The problem is that in Vegas casinos management are afraid of change, perhaps because not backed by state law. So casinos in Vegas (and other parts of the US) have become a place where smokers go guilt-free and non-smokers ‘put up’.
The second myth to dispel is that the air-vents, air-filters and air-changes in those casinos actually render the air smoke-free. Not true at all; whilst the air is better than if there were no air-vents, you can clearly still breathe smoke: every time we gamble in Vegas we develop sore throats or voice-box inflammation.
Having said that, some resorts are better than others, and some are just awful (air-wise): Most Caesar’s Entertainment Vegas casinos (and hotels) are very bad with regards to smoke; moreover, Excalibur is bad, Gold-Coast is also quite bad, but all in all most low-ceiling casinos in general are bad (including the super fun casino at Mirage); most older Fremont Street (downtown Vegas) casinos are bad (some of they don’t even have air-conditioning and leave the front doors open instead! Awful!) whilst higher-end, newer casinos are more tolerable (in general, but not always). In some well-built, modern resorts you can’t breathe much smoke, although if a smoker sits by the slot machine next to you, you’ll just choke no matter what. Out of the modern casinos, a surprise was beautiful Aria lately, since it seems that they have turned off its ventilation system: last time we were there, very recently, we found it extremely smoked-filled, with smoke lingering rather than being ‘sucked’ upwards (as it used to happen). Quite a shock for a high-end place like Aria. Is it possible that casinos are cutting corners and turning off their ventilation system?
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Jul 02, 2020 When it reopened Monday, the Bensalem gaming hall said it would allow smoking for patrons in a dedicated smoking area while sitting at a slot machines. (There was no smoking at the table games. Dec 22, 2014 On one side of the casino’s second floor is a larger patio with 22 outdoor slot machines. The other side offers a smaller smoking deck equipped with 12 new slots. A ban on indoor smoking in public areas was first instated in 2006 by ORC 3794, which states.
As per smoking in non-smoking corridors and rooms, the rule of thumb is that the most ‘budget’ resorts are usually worse in general and worse at ‘dealing with’ the problem, with the exception of Circus Circus in our experience, which was quite excellent (perhaps because there are so many families there). Higher-end Vegas resorts usually don’t even have guests who smoke in non-smoking areas.
Smoke-Free Casinos in Vegas:
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On the famous Strip, the stunning Venetian & Palazzo have a section of smoke-free gambling. Ask for it when you get there; their casino is one of the best in Vegas anyway, so it’s worth going there.
If you ever go to Biloxi on the Gulf, by the way, there is a brand new, classy hotel and casino, totally non-smoking, totally stunning, called Palace Casino Resort.
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A few months ago, Las Vegas-style casino operators in Ohio pilfered a brilliant idea from their neighboring racinos. They requested approval from the state to install outdoor slot machines in an effort to better accommodate their smoking patrons. The Ohio Casino Control Commission approved the request on Wednesday, and Toledo’s Hollywood Casino immediately got to work installing the new devices.
Visitors of the casino will now have the option of playing their favorite slot machines indoors, in a clean air, smoke-free environment, or stepping out onto one of two patios, where a total of 34 new slots have been mounted. On one side of the casino’s second floor is a larger patio with 22 outdoor slot machines. The other side offers a smaller smoking deck equipped with 12 new slots.
A ban on indoor smoking in public areas was first instated in 2006 by ORC 3794, which states:
| 3794.02 Smoking prohibitions. (A) No proprietor of a public place or place of employment, except as permitted in section 3794.03 of this chapter, shall permit smoking in the public place or place of employment or in the areas directly or indirectly under the control of the proprietor immediately adjacent to locations of ingress or egress to the public place or place of employment. |
Various exemptions are applied, but Las Vegas-style casinos weren’t approved in Ohio until 2009, therefore did not make the minutiae of the smoking ban upon execution; nor did the owners of the casinos seek exemption from the prohibition during negotiations. However, racinos and casinos found a rather wide loophole in the definitions of the law that permits smoking in a public place on an “outdoor patio”.
| 3794.01 Definitions. (I) “Outdoor patio” means an area that is either: enclosed by a roof or other overhead covering and walls or side coverings on not more than two sides; or has no roof or other overhead covering regardless of the number of walls or other side coverings. |
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To accommodate the classification of an outdoor patio, Penn National Gaming Inc., owner of Hollywood Casino in Toledo, elevated the existing metal screens encompassing the current smoking decks and integrated heating elements into the ceiling. Now those who enjoy puffing on a cigarette while playing slot machines will be able to do so all year round; weather permitting, of course. A retractable awing was integrated to protect the slots during inclement weather.
Penn National Gaming’s Hollywood Casino in Columbus received similar approval on Wednesday, turning its single smoking deck into a gaming area equipped with 21 slot machines.
Rock Ohio Caesars, a joint venture between Caesars Entertainment and Rock Gaming, applied for the same approval at its dual Horseshoe Casino locations in Cincinnati and Cleveland. Horse Casino Cincinnati was approved, and is building a brand new (and considerably larger) outdoor patio for smokers that will be able to house 150 slot machines.
The Horseshoe Casino in Cleveland was denied its application for outdoor gaming. Located on Public Square in the former Higbee’s Department Store, commission spokeswoman Jessica Franks explained that “Cleveland is not able to do it because of the Higbee building’s structure. There’s no room for them to put a patio or outdoor area there.” According to OCCC Executive Director Matt Schuler, a second phase proposal could implement outdoor gaming at the Cleveland casino down the road.