Sandy West at KFF Health News reports on the efforts of Workers who are seeking to ban tobacco smoke inside casinos.  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.  After suffering pandemic-era losses, some casino executives - and at least one Union (Unite Here Local 54) representing Workers, leaned into a 2021 report commissioned by the Casino Association of New Jersey to combat efforts to ban or restrict smoking at their properties.

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