Opponents of smoking in casinos try to enlist shareholders of…
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Add investors to the list of people that opponents of smoking in casinos are enlisting in hopes of banning the practice.
A national non-smoking group and a Michigan health system have placed shareholder proposals on the agenda of annual meetings for two major gambling companies and are likely to add a third.
The measures ask the companies to study potential financial benefits of going smoke-free at their fire kirin online casino properties.
And while it remains to be seen whether the proposals will be approved by investors, the move represents yet another aspect of an effort by online casino real money smoking foes to leave no stone unturned in their drive to end smoking in gambling halls. In New Jersey, that has included pushing lawmakers to legislate a...