Atlantic City: Plan to ban smoking in casinos is still waiting for a vote. Is politics holding it up?

Atlantic City: Plan to ban smoking in casinos is still waiting for a vote. Is politics holding it up?

Article brief provided by NJ Advance Media
  • Brent Johnson, NJ Advance Media
November 2, 2022 2:48 PM
  • Brent Johnson, NJ Advance Media

It’s not difficult to find lawmakers in the New Jersey Legislature who support a bipartisan bill that would completely ban smoking inside Atlantic City casinos.

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More than half the members in both the state Senate and Assembly have signed on as co-sponsors — numbers that have gradually grown over the last few months, with legislators saying the goal is to protect casino employees and patrons from secondhand smoke. Gov. Phil Murphy has also suggested he would sign the measure into law.

But the proposal has yet to be scheduled for a public hearing, let alone a vote.