“NO MORE SMOKE! NO MORE SMOKE!”
That was the chant from about 150 casino workers who packed the steps inside the State House Tuesday — their backs to the House chamber, but their voices aimed directly across the rotunda to the Senate floor.
It’s the fourth such year they’ve backed the bill by Rep. Teresa Tanzi, a South Kingstown Democrat, seeking to end the Lincoln and Tiverton casinos’ exemption from the state’s 2005 indoor smoking ban.
“For the last 20 years, there has been a grave injustice happening in our casinos,” Tanzi told the crowd. “These are our workers who are there day in, day out — they’re doing a service for our state.”
