Activist shareholder proposal seeks to end smoking inside Bally’s casinos

Monday, April 22, 2024 8:15 PM
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  • Christopher Shea, Rhode Island Current

Bills seeking to end the exemption from the state’s indoor smoking ban at Rhode Island’s two casinos have never made it out of committee at the State House. But a Michigan nonprofit hospital network thinks there is a better place to take the fight to ban smoking at all Bally’s-owned casinos across the country.

The company’s annual shareholders meeting.

Item number four on the agenda for Bally’s Corporation’s May 16 virtual annual meeting asks the company’s Board of Directors to commission a report on the potential financial benefits of going smoke-free at its properties…

The request comes from Trinity Health, which owns 440 shares of Bally’s stock — representing 0.001% of the more than 40 million shares issued by the Rhode Island-based casino giant.