No smoking ban on the horizon for Atlantic City casinos

New Jersey politicians are in no hurry to implement a smoking ban in Atlantic City’s casinos

New island of Jersey politicians are in no haste to implement a smoking forbiddance in Atlantic Ocean City’s casinos. State Senate President Steve Sweeney said thither has been no more give-and-take inward wish to pending legislating that would prohibit smoking inwards Atlantic City’s IX casinos.

Sweeney made this annunciation on the same daylight that anti-smoking campaigners held a word conference urging New Jersey’s lame-duck general assembly to passing play the bill. While smoking is banned in most indoor locations, Atlantic Ocean City’s casinos remain exempt.

Earlier this month, Democratic Governor Phil Murphy said he will sign on the valuate if it receives favourable reception from lawmakers, but Sweeney — speaking before an appearance at a ground-breaking ceremonial for a supermarket inward Atlantic Ocean City — gave no more assurances as to when this may happen.

“We haven’t fifty-fifty started to verbalise virtually it, really, in any rich dialogue,” Sweeney said. “The Governor, myself and the (Assembly) utterer make to have unitedly and determine which bills we’re sledding to run forward.

“I don’t experience what the lame duck’s going to looking like. The legislative body and the Governor all hold to be inward agreement. So, we’ll see.”

This intelligence comes to the appall of many anti-smoking advocates who had hoped a banning instituted by Murphy in response to Covid would trumpeter a more lasting measure. But after it expired inward April, casinos returned to beingness exempt.

Doubly disheartening is that this latest promulgation was made during the ‘Great American Smokeout’, an one-year event founded by the American Crab Society (ACS) which encourages people crossways the state to kibosh smoking.

A smoking censor inwards New Jersey would also come out to have got widespread support, at least according to an ACS canvas that revealed residents favour the declaration past a margin of greater than two-to-one.