Smoking banned in bars, restaurants, bingo halls
DOWNTOWN AKRON Summit County Council narrowly passed an amended smoking ban at its meeting Nov. 21, with exclusions granted to bowling alleys, private clubs and a racetrack. Bars, restaurants and bingo parlors, however, must be smoke-free in three months, by Feb. 28.
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Interesting gambling information:
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
- The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
- Pathological gambling is recognized as a medical disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and has elements of addiction similar to alcohol and drug addiction.
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