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Proposed Smokig Ban in Atlantic City

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Pretty simple really. "Gamblers tend to be smokers" means gamblers tend to be smokers. ?? "Non-Smokers tend not to be caught up in a gambling lifestyle" means there's a higher percentage of smokers who gamble vs. non-smokers who gamble. As for drinking, check out any bar and tell me if there's more smokers or non-smokers sitting. I'll let you use your imagination to figure out the rest of the puzzle, but the next time "Easy Money" (Rodney Dangerfield) is on the tube, give it a look.

dipy911 <dipy911@yahoo.com> wrote:Gamblers tend to be smokers, while non-smokers tend not to be caught up in a gambling lifestyle.

???
I can't figure out what this sentence is supposed to mean! Does this mean that all smokers need AA(Alcoholics Anon), GA, SA, … and all of us majority non-smokers vp playing fools are just pretending to gamble?

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#2

Pretty simple really. "Gamblers tend to be smokers" means gamblers
tend to be smokers......

"Non-Smokers tend not to be caught up in a gambling lifestyle" means
there's a higher percentage of smokers who gamble vs. non-smokers
who gamble.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Glen Hardy <ghardy222@y...> wrote:

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Hi Glen,

Would you be kind enough to let us know where you are getting your
statistics. i.e. "gamblers tend to be smokers" or that "there is a
higher percentage of smokers who gamble than non-smokers that
gamble".

If these statements are not based on statistics, are they based on
your perception of what you observe in casino settings? If so, I
think that my perception is at odds with your obsevation.

While I would concur that smokers constitute a higher percentage of
the gambling public than they do of the general public, that's a far
cry from "gamblers tend to be smokers". Perhaps, in bygone days,
that statement would have had some validity. I no longer believe
the statement to be true. Even in LV, the smoking capital of the
USA, there seem to be far fewer smokers than there were a few years
ago. There certainly are NOT far fewer gamblers.

In my own wide and varied circle of friends/family, almost all of
whom frequent casinos to one degree or another, there is not a single
smoker. Perhaps this is due to an age factor, or possibly an
education factor, but nevertheless, these folks DO gamble (some
gamble lots) and DON'T smoke.

Babe