You hit the nail on the head with your response.
Cheers to you!
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To: vpFREE@Yahoogroups.com
From: Richard Long <carlboy101@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Oct 1, 2009 5:27 pm
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] RE: Smoking in casinos (was Best non-smoking)
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From: Karlene Trudell <godess6042@yahoo.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:21:01 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] RE: Smoking in casinos (was Best non-smoking)
All I ever see is complaints about smoking and I KNOW I am not the only smoker
here. It may come as a suprise, but we aren't the evil demons that so many of
you make us out to be.
So, a rebuttal (and a bit of a rant) from the minority:
"Less than 20 percent of the population smokes, but walk into any Vegas
casino, and you'd swear they run the place."
I believe the percentage of gamblers who smoke may be quite a bit higher than
the percentage of the general population who does. If not, the casinos would be
jumping on the non-smoking ban wagon much faster, now wouldn't they? The ugly
reality is that they are in business to make money, not to worry about your
health. If so, they wouldn't be serving you all of those drinks and taking the
money you should be buying your blood pressure medicine with. And if
the smokers are in the smoking section, they feel they have the right to do so
(as they should), just as you feel you have the right to not put up with their
smoking in the non-smoking section (as you should).
There are bad and good machines in both sections of most casinos, it just seems
that the good ones are always in the section you aren't in. Trust me, all the
smokers think the good machines are in the non-smoking section 
"The problem with channging those places associated with having many smokers
is the drop in sales/revenue that historically has accompanied such a
move."
Good for the businesses that realize this and good for the smokers who refuse
to patronize those who don't. Maybe we are finally getting tired of being the
fashionably evil second class citizens. For every 10 who say they don't smoke,
there are 2 or 3 of those who are "closet smokers" and just won't admit it
because they are ashamed to. You know who you are......you people who sneak a
cigarette every chance you get, usually bummed from one of the smokers you
compain so loudly about, and don't want your husband/wife/kid/parents/friends to
know because you quit smoking for them (not yourself).
The truth? Most of us don't want to take over ANY PLACE: we think you have just
as much right to clean air as we do to our cigarettes. We just want our corner
in which to puff where it won't bother anyone else, and we are rapidly losing
even that because someone else wants to save us from ourselves.
There are always going to be rude jerks who will be inconsiderate about smoking
around non-smokers, but it goes both ways: there are plenty of rude non-smokers
too. Personally (and most of the smokers I know are the same way) if my smoking
bothers you, simply ask me politly not to do it around you and I will respect
your wishes, especially if you have health problems. However, being snotty about
it or doing stupid, rude things like blowing a little fan in my face (yes, that
has happened), or talking about my "nasty" habit to your friend as if I am not
there (also happened), is probably just going to get some extra smoke blown in
your direction.
K