Complaints about Smoking in Vegas

I don't smoke. Except for a short time in high school when I tried to smoke a pipe (with tobacco in it) I never smoked. I don't like smoke. I try to avoid smokers. If I am sitting at a video poker machine I try to sit in a position so that the smoke doesn't hit me in the face. At craps tables I've asked smokers to hold their smoke in another hand so the smoke doesn't hit me in the face. I prefer non-smoking tables or sections at casinos if they have them with the games I want to play.

With that said, I just checked the research of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and their survey of visitors to Vegas in 2014 found that only 3% of visitors said they didn't like Vegas because of the smokers/smoking.

I admit that while I don't like smokers and smoking and smoke in my face, the presence of smokers won't keep me out of a casino. I accept that smoking is part of casino gambling -- except in poker rooms and I hope the no-smoking continues there.

And if smoking is banned in casinos or if more casinos have more non-smoking areas and non-smoking tables that's fine with me.

I've gotten into more than one argument with smokers in casinos who disregarded my desire not to have smoke blown my way. And I understand smoke is still a part of going to casinos.

Smokers are walking slobs who care nothing about their own hygiene. Why would any of them care about anyone else's? These are sickening, stupid, weak people, and I don't like weak people. I do however get solace in the fact that most of them will die a slow, painful, excruciating, humiliating death and probably right there in front of any family members who still chose to associate with the idiots--one they certainly asked for all along by ignoring every warning along the way.

In time, there will be no more smoking in casinos. That's obvious. But we have to put up with these foul-smelling, dumb looking, yellow-teethed individuals until that time comes if we want to go to casinos.

Actually, I am more annoyed by a particular "cigar/cigarette girl" at Caesars Palace who has the loudest, most annoying, shrill who yells right into players' ears as she walks behind them than by the smokers themselves. She's so damn loud she almost makes me jump out of my seat.

I may have encountered that same girl, Alan.

Anyway, sports books were always rough vis-a-vis smoking. I probably did more damage to myself sitting in the Stardust sports book than anywhere except maybe Palace Station. The locals places are worse. Palace isn't quite as nasty as a few years ago, but it's still rough. I was surprised by the lousy quality of air in the Rio. Gold Coast seems harsh on occasion. Caesars doesn't bother me. Paris, despite low ceilings, seems okay. I don't know why/how the Rio is bad comparatively speaking, since they are both under CET.

I tried to inquire a few years back about whether cost-cutting led to inferior equipment or running the air circulation system fewer hours or what, but the people I spoke with seemed to think it was simply a matter of how often the filters were cleaned or some such. I know nothing, so any insights would be appreciated.

I've heard many times that the newer the casino the better the air system -- and that makes sense to me.

But more importantly might be the clientele. Wealthier people tend to smoke less. I don't think I've ever seen a smoker in the Palace Court high limit slots area at Caesars Palace.

I've been in the high limit area at Bellagio -- not to play, but just to walk through and use their cage -- and I've never seen anyone smoking in there either.

That time I went to the high limit room at Wynn to take that photo of the $25 video poker machine it was the same -- NO smokers.

At the craps tables at Bellagio there aren't as many smokers as there are at the craps tables at Caesars. Take that for what it's worth.

I've played a bit -- not much -- at Paris and I don't recall a lot of smokers there or a lot of smoke in the air. It's been about two years since I've been at Rio and I just don't remember the smoke situation.

Poor people in this country smoke way more than the rest of us. Mickeycrimm smokes. What's that tell you?

Overseas it's the other way around. The poor are smart enuf to understand that the more they spend on cancer sticks, the less they'll have for food. Of course, the past 7 years we've had Obama, who not only encourages poverty--he gives them enuf for cigarettes and liquor too.

Unfortunately the smoking vice and the gambling vice are often together in the same person, so there would be a huge backlash if smoking was eliminated in casinos.

They did eliminate smoking in poker rooms, but that was a much easier sell, as people tend to spend a lot more time in one spot in poker rooms, and casinos typically don't make much from poker rooms compared to other games, so they don't mind if smokers revolt and refuse to play poker!

California card clubs which have Vegas style table games seem to do well without smoking.

No smoking in Illinois casinos for several years now. At first it hurt business and sent the smokers to Indiana. But what a pleasure it is to be able to breath and not smell. And you can sneak there for a couple hours and the wife will never know cause you don't come home wreaking of smoke.

I have found the smoke at Caesars slots to be intolerable, but not too bad at the craps tables. But I can't stand any smoke at all.

What a wonderful concept: sending smokers to Indiana. LOL

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Originally Posted by Rob.Singer

Poor people in this country smoke way more than the rest of us. Mickeycrimm smokes. What's that tell you?

Overseas it's the other way around. The poor are smart enuf to understand that the more they spend on cancer sticks, the less they'll have for food. Of course, the past 7 years we've had Obama, who not only encourages poverty--he gives them enuf for cigarettes and liquor too.

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A friend who frequently visits Thailand asked me to black market cigarettes for him. He wanted to ship them to me. He says a pack of Marlboro is 65 cents there. what does that tell you about who gets all the money for cigarettes in u.s. He says everyone smokes in Thailand.

Obama stuck it to the poor who voted for him. That is, the ones who smoke. The tobacco tax was his first move in office. He raised it so high it doubled the price of rolling tobacco..

I think they should double the tax on tobacco again. And then do it one more time. And one more time after that too.

I think the argument that it's a drug is weak.-blaming addiction. 20 years ago, I took a drag on my last cigarette. A pain shot thru my chest and it was the last one I touched.

If you want to quit you can. My mom was a three pack a day smoker until that first cancer warning back in the early 1960s and then she quit. 100% quit. Never smoked again.

I just checked Google. That first warning was in 1964.

I lived in Thailand. Most of the well-to-do smoke. Most of the poor do not.

I'd support a $50/pack tax. Nickel keno might be out of reach then :)

I support tobacco being outlawed completely. Unfortunately politicians are getting rich due to these corporations.

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Originally Posted by jbjb

I support tobacco being outlawed completely. Unfortunately politicians are getting rich due to these corporations.

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That would put the mafia back in business big time, Al Capone style. Didn't work with booze won't work with cigarettes.

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Originally Posted by slobdinger

That would put the mafia back in business big time, Al Capone style. Didn't work with booze won't work with cigarettes.

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Obviously. Even before medical marijuana you could get it anywhere... if you wanted.

Bumping a 2015 thread to report that everyone in Vegas has come to their senses and quit smoking.

Seriously though, nothing has changed. :(

I'd like to know how you respond to obnoxious smokers, particularly in restricted areas. The 2006 Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act prohibits smoking in casino restaurants, bathrooms, elevators, convention facilities, shopping malls/retail, movie theaters and arcades. Some casinos voluntarily restrict portions of their gaming floor.

A typical scenario for me is a smoker in the restroom. I firmly instruct the offender to put out the cigarette, dumbass. And the smoker then instructs me to go fkuc myself.

Is there any way of handling the situation that would discourage the smoker from violating rules in the future?

Just keep laughing at and insulting them. mickeycrimm is an addicted smoker who has nothing to lose by suffering thru cancer. Ask him if he cares about others, let alone himself.