Advocates pushing smoking bylaw
In two years time every workplace in Calgary will have to be non-smoking. Currently in our city, smoking is banned in any place minors are allowed, making bars or casinos some of the few public places people can still light up.
Related Casino News:
- Under the B, belly-up: Smoking bylaw wipes out bingo hall (The Chronicle-Journal)
- No leeway in new smoking act
- Bylaw officials douse outdoor smoking tents
- Report: Smoky casino air fails EPA standards
- Bingo bylaw finally passed
- Study: Casinos shouldn’t be exempt from smoking ban
- Varying reports at Nevada conference on casino smoking restrictions
- Courier News Online - Air pollution findings fueling campaign for indoor smoking ban
- Anti-smoking groups GASPing for breath, seek to help workers
- Report: Smoky Ind. casino air fails EPA standards
- Casino Issue May Snag Smoking Ban
- Casinos brace for smoking ban debate
Casino gambling facts:
- 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.
- 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.
- A nationwide survey by the U.S. Travel Industry Association found that 38% of all U.S. residents have been to Las Vegas in their lifetime. The average length of visitors' stay in Las Vegas was almost 4 days (3.7).
- 1926: Las Vegas gets a regular air service. Western Air Express flies between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. The airfield later becomes the site for the famous Sahara and Hilton hotels.
1931: Gambling is legalized in Nevada on March 19. Construction begins on the long awaited Hoover Dam.
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