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Old 08-29-2010, 05:43 PM   #167 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Dwindhym View Post
It's not like the whole casino is smoking. We're talking about specifically renovated sections and rooms. Probably an eighth of the building's entirety. It isn't irrational to assign nonsmoking employees to the nonsmoking sections of the hotel. To smoke, you have to take the elevator down four stories and then 25 meters out of the entrance area, which is itself sizable (valet and such). And yes, the police do go out of their way to harass folk not abiding by the laws pertaining to the entrance. As far as bars go, plenty of bars can and have chosen to be nonsmoking. It's not like to go to a bar equals second hand smoke. At least half of our bars are nonsmoking. Smokers are a minority, and as such we're signed off by majority rule without a second thought, or rather were. Here in Georgia all is well.
That doesn't really do anything for the employees working at the bars that do allow smoking...
All I'm saying is I think it should be pretty obvious that the lesser sacrifice to be made here is for smokers to simply take it outside or to a designated area. It shouldn't be a horrible loss even for the most chain-smoking of smokers. It's not like someone is asking them to quit their job.......
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