Atlantic City casino operators have a new ally in their fight to maintain a smoker friendly gaming floor: the state. Attorney General Matt Platkin, a representative of the governor, has joined Local 54 in opposing a lawsuit launched by casino workers to ban smoking in the casinos. A union taking a stand against the health and safety of its members is odd, almost as strange as the state seconding the motion. There is, however, nothing out of the ordinary in a corporation valuing profit over people.
The argument from the casinos is the same as it ever was, falling profits, portents of doom, boiling seas, rains of frogs and general mass hysteria if gamblers are forced to take a ten-minute smoke break off property.
