In recent years, however, an employee group known as Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (CEASE) has been pushing a repeal of that exemption in the name of workers’ health. New Jersey banned indoor smoking in 2006 but allowed the practice to continue in casinos and their simulcasting facilities. Those same officials say they will move to ban menthol cigarettes in the state altogether.
The New Jersey Monitor reported that New Jersey lawmakers are planning to use this month’s lame-duck session of the Legislature to address bills in both chambers to end the casino smoking exemption. The casino exemptions to indoor smoking bans in New Jersey and Pennsylvania both moved closer to an end last week, as lawmakers in both states considered plans to move bills to eliminate the exemptions to ban smoking inside casinos.
