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Hoping to clear the air in casinos, workers seek to ban tobacco smoke (kffhealthnews.org)

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The instant Tammy Brady felt the lump in her breast in February 2022, she knew it was cancer. With no known genetic predisposition for breast cancer, she suspects 38 years of working in smoky Atlantic City casinos played a role.

“I was just trying to make a living,” said Brady, 56, a dealer and supervisor at Borgata in that New Jersey resort city. “You don’t think, you know, that you’re going to get sick at your job.”

Some casinos continue to allow indoor smoking even as the share of Americans who smoke fell from about 21% in 2005 to 12% in 2021 and smoking is banned in at least some public spaces in 35 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Still, 13 of the 22 states and territories that allow casino gambling permit smoking in at least part of their facilities.

Brady is among the casino employees, anti-smoking advocates, and public health experts who argue it is long past time to snuff out casino exemptions from smoking bans, given the dangers of secondhand smoke. But they’ve faced stiff pushback from some gambling industry leaders, including in Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, and New Jersey, who argue that smoking bans drive gamblers away — especially in places where patrons can go instead to a casino in a nearby jurisdiction that allows them to light up.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, you don’t trust the CDC because of the USA’s war on drugs policies/funding. Fair enough. Here’s information from only non-USA health organizations:

https://www.who.int/activities/protecting-people-from-tobacco-smoke

https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/environmental-burden-of-cancer/second-hand-smoke

https://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/doi/10.46234/ccdcw2022.020

https://www.health.gov.au/topics/smoking-vaping-and-tobacco/about-smoking/passive-smoking

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/smoking-tobacco/health-effects-smoking-second-hand-smoke/second-hand-smoke.html

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/quit-smoking/passive-smoking-protect-your-family-and-friends/

Should I find more, or is World Health Organization, EU and the governments of China, Australia, Canada, and the UK enough? All of these organizations agree that second hand smoke is harmful.

I’m not being self-righteous, I’m saying you don’t have the right to hurt other people. I understand that your argument is that second hand smoke doesn’t hurt other people, so I assume you would agree that you don’t have the right to hurt other people (but maybe you wouldn’t agree, idk). Now we’re just determining who’s right, you and the tobacco industry, or every science-based health administration and organization in the world and the general consensus of the medical community.

If you ultimately do agree that second hand smoke is harmful to others, you’ll have to decide if you want to update your belief that these laws shouldn’t be passed and maybe start smoking further away from people, or if you want to change your morality to say you have the right to hurt other people.

You can also do nothing, ignore all of the evidence I’ve presented to you, and just try not to suffer from too much cognitive dissonance.