![]() So it came as a surprise when Mount Airy, which lies almost equidistant between Philadelphia and New York City, recently lifted its smoking ban without explanation. ![]() The C3 Gaming report included results from Pennsylvania where the Mount Airy Casino Resort maintained a smoking ban and revenue increased slightly, while its competitor, Mohegan Sun Pocono, permitted smoking and revenue showed a slight decline. "The fear that business would drop was quickly dispelled as gaming volume quickly achieved pre-pandemic levels." ![]() "About 160 Indian gaming casinos chose to keep smoking bans in place," Klebanow said. "Quite simply, COVID changed everything (related to smoking and casinos)," said Andrew Klebanow, a co-founder of C3 Gaming, a casino consulting consortium in Las Vegas.Ĭ3 Gaming released a report this year showing customers returned to casinos after smoking bans primarily because they enjoy gambling. When commercial and tribal casinos began re-opening after the coronavirus pandemic shutdown of 2020, smoking bans proliferated, and the sky did not fall. ![]() Casinos and smoking have always been joined at the hip, but one of the many legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic could be the eradication of smoke-filled gambling dens. ![]()
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