Being non-smoking had little if anything to do with Revel's closing. People who go to AC are mostly non-smokers, while the locals smoke like chimneys. And would the smokers have gone to Revel if smoking were allowed? Of course not--it's way too classy for the slugs.

The biggest problem Revel had was poor management, insufficient marketing, and they opened a multi-billion dollar resort at at time that was far less than optimal for a place already on the downspin like AC. In short, it was too good to be true and at the wrong time.