Atlantic City: Hearing on smoking bill to be held Feb. 13

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 4:24 PM
  • Jeff Edelstein, NJ Online Gambling

Some 17 years after New Jersey’s indoor smoking ban came into existence, the state Senate will, for the first time, hold a public hearing on the idea of prohibiting smoking in the state’s last bastion of Marlboro Country: Atlantic City’s casinos.

State Sen. Joe Vitale, the chairman of the Senate Health, Human Services, & Senior Citizens Committee, announced Wednesday the committee will hold the hearing on bill S-264 — which would ban smoking of all stripes in the casinos — on Monday, Feb. 13 at 1 p.m.

“This hearing will give those engaged in the issue and impacted by the legislation the opportunity to express their views and share relevant information on the proposed casino smoking ban,” Vitale, a Middlesex Democrat, said in a press release announcing the hearing.