A group of Atlantic City casino workers seeking to ban smoking in the gambling halls will launch an advertising campaign featuring their children. The move comes in response to a judge’s rejection of a lawsuit that would have ended smoking in the nine casinos.
FILE - A gambler lights a cigarette at a slot machine in Harrah’s casino in Atlantic City N.J., on Sept. 29, 2023. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A group of Atlantic City casino workers seeking to ban smoking in the gambling halls will launch an advertising campaign featuring their children in response to a judge’s rejection of a lawsuit that would have ended smoking in the nine casinos.
On Friday, a state judge rejected the lawsuit, ruling the workers’ claim that New Jersey’s Constitution guarantees them a right to safety “is not well-settled law” and that they were unlikely to prevail with such a claim. Whether to ban smoking is one of the most controversial issues not only in Atlantic City casinos, but in other states where workers have expressed concern about secondhand smoke. They are waging similar campaigns in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Kansas and Virginia.
The ad campaign will be titled “Kids of C.E.A.S.E.” and will feature the children of casino workers expressing concern for their parents’ health and safety in smoke-filled casinos.
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