At 2:00 pm on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, G2E will make history with its first panel discussion on smoking in casinos. Andrew Klebanow of C3 Gaming joins Brian Christopher (BCSlots), Marc Oppenheimer (Greenwood Gaming, operator of PARX Casino) and Cynthia Hallet (ANR Foundation) on the panel. Panelists will discuss current nonsmoking policy trends at the local, state, and tribal level.
Casino operators have long feared that implementing restrictions on smoking would negatively affect gaming revenues despite the implementation of policies across the world that restrict indoor smoking. The pandemic provided a real-world case study on how recent restrictions on smoking on casino floors actually affected revenue.
Topics will also include how the implementation of non-smoking policies affects gaming revenues, recruitment and retention of staff, maintenance costs, as well as the life of gaming equipment, air handling systems, and casino furnishings. Additionally, practical plans on how to switch to a smokefree gaming floor will be presented and fleshed out through discussion and Q&A session.
The panel discussion was announced in a recent article “G2E smoking-policy panelists look for ‘genuine discussion’ of thorny issue” written by Mark Gruetze and published by CDC Gaming.
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Andrew Klebanow is co-founder and a partner at Casino Consultants Consortium (C3 Gaming). He has worked in the casino industry since 1977 and as a gaming consultant since 2000. He can be reached at andrew@KlebanowConsulting.com.
Published articles and academic papers can be found at KlebanowConsulting.com/library
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