SMOKING OR NO SMOKING?
Suddenly, they found themselves crammed into relatively small,
smoke-filled sections of the casino floor. Other parts of the
casino contained signs that blared the words Smoking
Prohibited.
It stinks, said Joe Puopolo, a pack-a-day smoker from
Boston.
It's a pain in the butt, moaned Pauline Bors, a smoker
from Baltimore.
For angry smokers, there was a lot more huffing and a lot less
puffing at Atlantic City's 11 casinos as a new local law took
effect Sunday that restricts smoking to no more than 25 percent
of the gaming floor.
For the first time in the city's 29-year history of casino
gambling, most of the gaming floor is off-limits to smoking.