LAS VEGAS - the notice on the door to the Hotel Casino was emphatic. "The Westin Casuarina is a smoke free environment." "Thank you for not smoking." Just over, four people were bent on slot machines of the other afternoon, shred of cigarette smoke swirling around you around like you happily away inflated.
"And it was perfectly legal.""This is good," said Ray Wan, a flight attendant from Hawaii, lighting up a cigarette as a slot machine beeped and whirled before him.
At a time much of the rest which is on a crusade to smoke to banish the casinos of Las Vegas was a smoker of OASIS, nation - in fact much of the rest of the world - perhaps the last place free from the restrictions, which of the restaurants, bars, have spread shopping malls to cars, the children wear. Nevada law trumps Westin policy.
No matter that Nevada strongly approved a ban on public smoking voters four years ago: certain powerful gaming industry that it alerts an exception for casinos enthalten.Blackjack distributors and dealers of tobacco smoke, to a $5 million federal class action press lawsuit against the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel Casino to protect workers who smoke cloud room sitting in to force. But most of the plaintiff's lawyers expect from the fall installation high air device is clean.
Even the ominous warning labels for cigarette packets to the Wednesday of health regulators proposed seem unlikely, make a difference here.
This being Las Vegas, a place that has made a branch from the surplus and risky behavior seems to be smoking here.Civic leader that could be troublesome enable a habit that has, let's say its demonstrable disadvantages, point to evidence that a ban would hurt Casino business, argue that smoking as free drinks to play the slots at 7 am as an integral part which is Las Vegas experience and services eskortieren.Atlantic City banned smoking in 2008, and roll back of the ban a month later due to complaints from casinos.
"It was a connection between smokers and player for years," said Billy Vassiliadis, Executive advertising represents tourism industry of the city."A lot of people do things here, do home tun.Es part's complaint of Las Vegas as a whole.""You can here."
It is so that at a time when is smoking in the rest of the country become taboo that almost liberated smokers seem when on the Las Vegas Strip step: Finally, it is somewhere where you have nothing to be ashamed of how you play through their bastion of freedom.
"I mean, where else you can come in from the outside smoking a cigarette on foot in just and keep lit?", said Andrew Garcia, a native of Las Vegas.
The other evening a uniformed woman swung a tray with packs of cigarettes and cigars loaded (Yes, a cigarette girl: only in Vegas) course of O' O'sheas Las Vegas roamed Kasinos.Im Bellagio a player rolling his eyes on a seatmate trying the air with a wave of hand, while on the road at the Flamingo, a couple, with almost theatrical disregard burning cigarettes clear and thrust in the air, like you see pink tube marched neon lights down the main hall of the Casino.
"" A woman next to me was sitting and started to stir up the smoke way with their hands,"said Kelli Lee, 41, of Los Angeles, as you worked your way through a pack of Marlboro Lights during the slots in the Imperial Palace Casino to play.""Can you believe it?"
"" If cigarettes were illegal, then I would say smoking, not to you", she added.""But are rechtliche.Tabak natürlich.Ich is would not come and play, if I could do not smoke."
"Paul Hynes, 36, Toronto, hoisted a lit cigar as he and three friends on thick cigars, puffing went between the dealer tables in Bellagio.""This is an essential part of the environment here," said Mr Hynes.
Ana Facio Contreras contributed reporting.
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