Atlantic City Now Smoke Free

Atlantic City's casino hotel, The Tropicana Atlantic City, has announced it will go 100% from now on. No, it is not going to forgo profits from the games but ban smoking on the casino floor. It will create non smoking gaming areas for those players who wish to have fun and not have to breath in second hand smoke.

The most practical way to go smoke free, as the managers have figured it out to be, is to close off sections for smokers, enclosed and separated by glass doors for the rest of the cutomers. The initiative was welcomed by non smoking advocacy groups who believe protecting innocent gamblers from second hand smoke is the way to go. A representative of the New Jersey Group Against Smoking Pollution said it will do if employees at least are protected from the harm of smoking.

The new policy is in accordance with a city ordinance approved earlier this month, which limits smoking to only one quarter of the gaming floor. The ordinance sets a timeline for temporary solutions to close off sections from smoking and to hand in plans for permanent solutions for separations on the  floors. Although it does not prohibit smoking from the entire casino hotel gaming floors, as some expected the ordinance to decree, it is still a step towards settling this dispute between smokers and non smokers, all of whom are fans of gambling.