“I do want to take away your right to kill someone else by smoking in a casino.” “I don’t want to take away your right to kill yourself by smoking,” said Assemblyman Don Guardian, a former mayor of Atlantic City. Currently, smoking is permitted on 25% of a casino floor in Atlantic City. That measure was written specifically to exempt casinos from bans on smoking indoors. The bill would close a loophole in the state’s 2006 indoor smoking law. Phil Murphy has promised to sign the bill if it passes the Legislature, but thus far, leaders of the Democrat-controlled Assembly and Senate have not committed to allowing the bill to move forward and be voted upon. No vote was taken on the bill, as in an identical hearing on Feb. They were among numerous casino employees who testified Thursday before two state Assembly committees in favor of a bill that would prohibit smoking in Atlantic City’s nine casinos. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
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