Thursday, January 06 2011
8NewsNow.com (NV)
LAS VEGAS -- It's meant to improve people's health but a smoking ban at McCarran International Airport enacted about four years ago is one of the reasons gaming revenues are down.
Airport officials say gaming revenues are down about $5 million from last year. They say there are three main factors for that and the smoking ban is one of them. The Clean Air Act was passed by Nevada voters in 2006 banning smoking basically anywhere except casinos, bars that don't serve food, and brothels.
As a result, McCarran got rid of its indoor smoking areas so now smokers head outside for a smoke instead of staying inside and playing the machines.
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