New Jersey’s Public Health Council wants the state health commissioner to take “urgent action” to close a loophole in the state’s indoor smoking law that exempts Atlantic City’s casinos.
The advisory board voted earlier this week to recommend a resolution to New Jersey Health Commissioner Raymond Washington calling for action to address the casino smoking loophole.
The state health department is being sued by casino workers seeking to end smoking in Atlantic City’s nine casinos, one of two parallel tracks smoking foes are using to try to end the practice.
The other is a so-far fruitless effort in the state Legislature to pass a smoking ban.
