Another Smoke Free Casino
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:41 pm
Last week we were in Gulfport Miss and found a new casino called Beach Casino. It is an extension of the Island View Casino. The Beach is completely smoke free and beautiful being right on the Gulf Of Mexico. The casinos are joined by an indoor bridge across the hyway from each other.
This seems to be the way of the future as more casinos offer smoke free buildings or at least smoke free rooms. New casinos being built are taking non smokers more into consideration. Older casinos don't always have an option so not many changes there.
I know there are many smokers but each year those numbers are going down. We have been on our annual cross country tour and really are starting to see the difference in how casinos are trying to accomadate everyone.
In Windsor Canada there is no smoking anywhere and the casino is mostly filled with Americans from Michigan who don't smoke. They have three casinos in Detroit but people will get passports and pay boarder tolls just to avoid the smoke (and a good break on exchanging US dollars to Canadian) I always ask them why they go to the trouble of crossing the boarder and the usual answer is the lack of smoke.
I know they have tried this in places like Vegas and it did not work, however little by little the tide is turning. I have nothing against smokers as they have every right to smoke but the non smokers must also be accomadated.
We are in the Florida Panhandle for the month and then will head down south for a month to Lake Placid FL for another month. This will be over two months without gambling and that might be our longest break in the last 10 years.
This seems to be the way of the future as more casinos offer smoke free buildings or at least smoke free rooms. New casinos being built are taking non smokers more into consideration. Older casinos don't always have an option so not many changes there.
I know there are many smokers but each year those numbers are going down. We have been on our annual cross country tour and really are starting to see the difference in how casinos are trying to accomadate everyone.
In Windsor Canada there is no smoking anywhere and the casino is mostly filled with Americans from Michigan who don't smoke. They have three casinos in Detroit but people will get passports and pay boarder tolls just to avoid the smoke (and a good break on exchanging US dollars to Canadian) I always ask them why they go to the trouble of crossing the boarder and the usual answer is the lack of smoke.
I know they have tried this in places like Vegas and it did not work, however little by little the tide is turning. I have nothing against smokers as they have every right to smoke but the non smokers must also be accomadated.
We are in the Florida Panhandle for the month and then will head down south for a month to Lake Placid FL for another month. This will be over two months without gambling and that might be our longest break in the last 10 years.