Smoking ban continues to hurt casinos and other businesses

Even with an extra day of business because of leap year, Colorado's mountain casinos posted a 10 percent drop in revenue last month — perhaps the strongest sign yet of the smoking ban's impact on the industry.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_8626878

Nobody is surprised. Government’s attempts to “help” the employees of the casinos are most likely going to make those employees unemployed if business does not pick back up soon.

Comments

[Ken]

This is the way I see it: Everyone else gets their bullshit rule, so as a non-smoker, why can't I have mine? Alcohol is a perfectly legal substance, but I can't walk to my neighbor's house across the street with a beer, because that violates Colorado's ban on public consumption of liquor.

If we want to get rid of all these petty laws, that's fine with me, but otherwise I want the stupid petty laws that I happen to benefit from.

[severin]

I see so two wrongs make a right in your world. You must have had a pretty sad childhood if those were the kinds of values you were taught.