Skip to comments.
Smoking bans and casinos
Las Vegas Review-Journal ^
| 22 sept 08
Posted on 09/22/2008 3:22:27 AM PDT by rellimpank
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-30 last
To: rellimpank
The solution, of course, is to raise tobacco taxes another 50% to cover the revenue shortfall. /sarc
21
posted on
09/22/2008 7:26:07 AM PDT
by
ProfoundMan
(Our women can beat up your men!)
To: Max in Utah
And we call ourselves a free people...
We are not free and haven't been for some time. Electing the same two parties into positions of power for 150 years has consequences.
22
posted on
09/22/2008 7:28:02 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Gabz
I will no longer go to the casino in Erie since only 25% of the casino floor is designated for smoking (50% would have been okay with me). The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania just lost tax revenue from me. I'll bypass Erie and head to an Indian casino in New York. People have to be realistic — you have to allow some places where adults can be adults. And if and when the ban becomes 100% in casinos, I'll stay home and play the game manufacturer's games online for free. This is now way past ridiculous.
23
posted on
09/22/2008 7:32:57 AM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: NC28203
I am going to Vegas next month. I can assure you that if it were non-smoking, I would not be spending the money to go there from Ohio. You are correct though, smoking in casinos is not the only reason for loss of revenue for them, but it IS a reason.
24
posted on
09/22/2008 7:39:25 AM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: Gabz
To: Gabz
Give 'em an inch and they'll take...........The world.
It's already happened.
26
posted on
09/22/2008 6:35:10 PM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: rellimpank
Control freaks cutting off their own noses to spite their faces.
Gotta' love it.
During the last depression, we could at least go to a bar, drink and smoke. Now, going to a bar is an almost unacceptable risk and you dang sure can't smoke in there in most jurisdictions.
I'm starting to wish that these control freaks get their asses handed to them - if not in the courts or the legislatures, then on the street corners.
To: rellimpank
One could easily imagine Comrades Trotsky and Lenin musing that “once the ban on private property is universal, we’ll be fine.”
28
posted on
09/22/2008 6:51:00 PM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: elkfersupper
[Sigh] At least some of us will remember, for a while, back to when it was free country.
29
posted on
09/22/2008 7:43:40 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Gabz
thanks for the ping, legs.
30
posted on
09/22/2008 9:17:40 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of Rudy McRomney
(Obama deserves a medal for saving the country &stopping the Clintons (but not my vote))
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-30 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson