A five-year quest by Atlantic City casino workers to ban smoking in the gambling halls will go before an appeals court Monday in Trenton in a lawsuit seeking to force the state to end smoking in casinos.
The lawsuit argues that the current exemption for casino workers from the Smoke-Free Air Act, which protects all other workers, violates the New Jersey State Constitution, which prohibits laws that do special favors for corporations.
In August 2024, a judge ruled in favor of the casinos, allowing smoking to continue in the nine gambling halls.
The court case is but one aspect of a multi-pronged attack on casino smoking being waged by the workers, who call themselves CEASE, for Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects.
