Entries tagged with “Casino Employee” from Smoke-Free St. Louis

ATLANTIC CITY -- An intense lobbying effort from the casino industry paid off Wednesday when city council voted, 5-4, to introduce an ordinance that would delay for a year implementing a full smoking ban, set to take effect Oct. 15.

Final vote on the ordinance is to be held Oct. 22.

Read the full story here: www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008810090396

Hear Jennifer speak about how secondhand smoke has affected her:

"I'm here in St. Louis to educate, inform people of the seriousness of secondhand smoke...back in December I had a CAT Scan done on my lungs...there are nodules scattered throughout both my lungs, and I never smoked a day in my life...Being in the casino for 24 years, I've seen many, many people become fatally ill...people never smoked a day in their lives, no cancer in their family history, people died...There is no safe levels of secondhand smoke...state of the art ventilation, the smoke goes to the dealers or patrons first, so basically the dealers and patrons on the casino floors are human filters...What's important is most people enjoy their jobs...why do we have to die at our jobs? Why can't we live at our jobs?...A patron might come back at them and say, "You've got that choice to work here"...we're not trying to tell smoker's to quit...people have the right to smoke, but the public has the right to breathe fresh, clean indoor air...The damage is done...the smoke gets to you before it gets to the ventilation...we need to get to the source...to have St. Louis become smoke-free is getting to the source. And giving everybody the right to breathe fresh indoor air.

-Jennifer Guillermain, Atlantic City casino employee