How the AC smoking ban is enforced

I was playing in a store last night, actually found an empty non-smoking table of my favorite game. This bongabong* strolls up to the table smoking a cigarette and sits down.

How does the floor respond to this? By rushing an ashtray over to him! He called his friend, another bongabong, over to the table and they spent the next couple of hours chain smoking, jabbering away and being as annoying as they could possibly be. When I asked the floor about the smoking, they told me they had just made it a smoking table.

So it looks like this is how the AC casinos are going to comply with the law that 75% of their floor be non-smoking: let anyplace where someone lights up a cigarette be the smoking area and let us try to prove it's more than 25%.

* Bongabong- a term I just made up that refers to the sound of certain languages from Southeast Asia.

It depends on where you were I think. Borgata normally specifies which side of the pit is smoking and which one isn't. I just can't wait until next month when it becomes a non-issue and the whole town goes smoke free.

I had the opposite happen earlier this week. I was playing a variant of BJ where the only 2 open tables were in the smoking section. I asked the PC to make one non-smoking and at first he pointed me to the non-smoking section. After I pointed out there were no games open there, he brought out the sign.

I was also at the Trop a couple of days ago, and I don't care what management says, that casino is one big smoking area. There was no place to escape the smoke.

Most of the tables were closed, and they had the No Smoking signs on the closed tables. I guess they thought that satisfies the requirement to have 75% of the floor non-smoking. The high limit areas were 100% smoking.

Being it's going to be all non-smoking in a month, maybe city enforcement is calling off the dogs between now and then. Or maybe they're just not going to enforce it, and pay a nominal fine if they get called on it. We'll see.

I was playing at Trump P the other day and would you believe it, they had 0 non smoking $15 tables while having 4 smoking ones open. I requested that they not shut down the table I was at which was the last non smoking one and they refused to oblige me. They wouldn't even let me play at a $25 non smoking table that was empty for $15.

The Donald is pushing hard to delay the ban, saying it will kill business for the casinos, worse than it's alrady down. We'll see what happens...

I guess you didn't read the post immediately above your's.