2015年9月30日 星期三

Outside gaming expo, table-game dealers push for smoke-free casinos

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Las Vegas dealers who picketed Tuesday morning outside the Global Gaming Expo say they can handle the occasional drunken customer or angry gambler losing bets.
But there's another nuisance permeating their work environment they can't tolerate: smoking. They're tired of the carcinogenic puffs of smoke in their faces. Tired of gaming executives placing profits over employees' health. And tired of inaction from the Nevada Legislature.

"If the state goes nonsmoking, there's no competition," said Cynthia Falls, president of the Transport Workers Union Local 721, which represents table-game s188 dealers. "More than that, we deserve better. Why are we the last bastion for smokers?"

That's the question the group posed to passers-by on Sands Avenue, outside the bustling Sands Expo and Convention Center, where attendees gathered to discuss all things gaming. The dozen picketers let their signs do the talking: "Casino employees are dying from secondhand smoke!" and "Go smoke free in casinos!"

Occasionally a passing vehicle honked in solidarity. Several suit-clad G2E attendees walked by without a word.

The lukewarm response hasn't deterred Stephanie Steinberg, chairwoman of Smoke-free Gaming of America, from championing the cause, and she isn't even a dealer. She's a gambler who has been visiting Las Vegas for 20 years and fell into the advocacy work after learning about casino employees' hardships — including dealers battling cancer or chronic asthma, or being subjected to secondhand smoke while pregnant.

For eight years, Steinberg has joined other smoke-free advocates and s188 dealers to picket outside the massive gaming conference. They don't consider it a protest because they're not anti-gaming, just against smoking in casinos.

"The reality is most gamblers don't smoke," she said. "Smoking has become a thing of the past."

As cities and states have enacted smoke-free laws, lighting up became prohibited in some casinos across the nation, including the $442 million Horseshoe Baltimore Casino that opened last year and Harrah's New Orleans Hotel and Casino, both of which are Caesars Entertainment properties. MGM Resorts, meanwhile, is opening its $1.3 billion, smoke-free National Harbor Casino in Maryland next year. Macau also has implemented a partial smoking ban in its casinos.

Steinberg said public support for banning smoking in Nevada casinos has grown a little more each year, leaving her optimistic for the future. Some Las Vegas sportsbooks and poker rooms already ban smoking.

"It's inevitable," she said. "It's going to happen. Nevada will be smoke-free."

Falls said the union will put more boots on the ground, whether it's members s188 attending city council meetings or networking events, to advocate for a smoking ban in casinos. The effort relies on willing participants such as David Sackin, a longtime dealer who toted a sign along Sands Avenue on Tuesday.

His rationale for joining the movement: "I just feel it's a moral responsibility."

 

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2015年9月19日 星期六

Maryland’s gamblers struggle to find help (2)

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The first casino in Maryland opened its doors five years ago this month. Since then, four more have debuted, and a giant, the $1.3bn MGM National Harbor in Prince George's County, is set to open next year.From a financial standpoint, the casinos have been big winners for the state. Led by Maryland Live and Horseshoe Baltimore, they took in just over $1bn in the fiscal year ending 30 June. The state's cut was $487m, with $388m earmarked for Maryland's Education Trust Fund.

The rewards are well documented, but the S188  gambling fallout is harder to calculate.

The calls to the help line and the additions to the Voluntary Exclusion list represent just the tip of the addiction iceberg, experts say, and tens of thousands of Marylanders are in danger of becoming casualties.

"Many of the effects are not obviously visible," said Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling. "Things like bankruptcy for example, unpaid credit card debt. We call it the hidden addiction because it's often a hidden driver of healthcare and criminal justice costs."

Marie is one of the estimated 150,000 Marylanders who a 2009 state survey found suffer from a moderate to severe gambling addiction. (The state was supposed to release a follow-up study this year but decided to postpone it until after the opening of MGM National Harbor in 2016.)

Marie was a year into recovery when she pulled into a northern Virginia 7-Eleven in early 2013. She had already had herself officially banned from casinos in Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. She was regularly attending Gamblers Anonymous meetings and was getting her life back in order after years of personal and professional chaos.

But the pull was still there. In the gas station, Marie, who agreed to be identified only by her middle name, bought an instant lottery ticket, took out a quarter and scratched to see if any numbers matched. Then she bought another. And another. Three hours later, down $400, Marie left the convenience store feeling guilty and ashamed, vowing, again, to kick gambling for good.

But for the self-employed, 51-year-old woman with a college degree, temptation lurks everywhere. Last year, Horseshoe Baltimore opened just few miles from where she lives. Travelling down Interstate 95 for work takes Marie past signs forMaryland Live, the state's busiest and most profitable casino. And the opening of MGM National Harbor S188  next year lurks in her mind.

"I stopped going to Las Vegas," she said, "but then S188 Las Vegas came to Maryland."

The Gamblers Anonymous meetings provided comfort and relief, but getting additional treatment for gambling addiction was out of reach. "I was flat broke," she said. "How do you get to go to one of these places when you're flat broke?"

 

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2015年9月12日 星期六

Alabama's dilemma: choosing between gambling or taxes to plug budget deficit(2)

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Three-fifths of state lawmakers would need to approve the constitutional amendment in order to place the proposal on a statewide ballot. If voters passed the measure, Alabama would levy a 13% tax on gross casino gambling revenue, which would go toward the general fund. An additional 1% tax would be split among the counties where the casinos are located. The bill also calls for a 4% tax on casino equipment vendors.

The gambling bill would also establish Alabama's first-ever lottery to plug the budget gap. Alabama, one of six states without a lottery in the United States, is no stranger to such proposals over the years.

Back in 1998, Democrat Don Siegelman was elected governor largely on the promise of letting residents scratch lottery tickets to provide free in-state tuition to Alabama high school graduates – a model other southern states such as Georgia and South Carolina now have in place. Facing strong church opposition on moral grounds, residents ultimately rejected the lottery proposal the following year. The ill-fated plan later landed Siegelman 9club a six-and-a-half year prison sentence for corruption charges related to the sale of a state regulatory board seat in exchange for a $500,000 lottery campaign donation.

A recent Auburn University at Montgomery study found both a lottery and casino could generate a total of nearly $400m in annual revenue. According to Marsh, the expanded gambling could lead to $800m in economic development. With Alabama residents driving to other states to gamble, he says officials are missing a major opportunity to boost the state's economy and solve the budget crisis.

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Republican state senator Trip Pittman doesn't buy into the potential benefits of the gambling plan. He plans to filibuster the legislation on the senate floor arguing that it won't solve the state's immediate budget needs. Pittman says lawmakers should instead consider alternatives like further streamlining of the state's retirement costs, 9club capping healthcare spending, and revisiting the use of taxpayer incentives given to private-sector companies.

 

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2015年9月10日 星期四

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Del Marsh doesn't consider himself a betting man. Yet the longtime Republican official representing Anniston, Alabama, has placed his chips on a solution to fix the state's several-hundred-million-dollar budget shortf

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all that's reignited the longstanding debate over a controversial topic in this conservative state: gambling.

Past efforts to loosen Alabama's gaming restrictions have largely fallen on closed ears. But the times could be changing. A new proposal to legalize traditional casinos and establish a lottery, two forms of gambling that have traditionally encountered backlash in the heart of the Bible belt, has surfaced at the behest of conservative lawmakers.

State lawmakers are being forced to close the state's more than $250m short-term budget gap during the current legislative session. Governor Robert Bentley, who so far has resisted calls for direct budget cuts from the legislative branch, has proposed raising $541m in new taxes to address both immediate and long-term budget shortfalls.

Alabama residents, long opposed to increases in both gaming and taxes, could be forced to choose the lesser of two evils.

"You've got to understand, whereas Republicans may not favor gaming strongly, they definitely oppose higher taxes," says Marsh, who currently serves as the Alabama senate president pro tempore. "When you're left with the option of the governor increasing taxes, I think it's only fair to let the people vote on it. The taxes would not. Let the people make that decision before we tax them."

Marsh says his bill would give voters the chance to legalize class II and class III gambling – which include slot machines, blackjack, poker, craps and other table games – near the state's four greyhound tracks. Currently, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the state's lone federally recognized tribe, has smaller-scale casinos in Atmore, Montgomery and Wetumpka that offer electronic bingo that looks like slot machines but is legal. Gamblers seeking a traditional gambling experience with slot machines or roulette must leave the state to cash in their chips.

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2015年9月1日 星期二

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