Slot Machine Expert Brian Christopher Sticking to Smoke-Free Casinos
Beginning inwards January, expansion slot machine guru Brian Christopher will lead off to space himself from casinos that reserve patrons to smoke.
Christopher told Casino.org he testament “prioritize” smoke-free casinos, starting Jan. 1, 2022. One twelvemonth later, on Jan. 1, 2023, St. Christopher will “exclusively partner” with casinos that censor smoking.
With 13 percent of the US population smoking these days, it no more longer makes sense to force 100 percent of patrons and stave to take a breath inwards the harmful chemicals, and that includes myself and my staff,” Saint Christopher told Casino.org.
On his YouTube channel, “Brian Saint Christopher Slots,” the social media influencer posts day-to-day videos with lessons on how to child's play one-armed bandit machines at casinos worldwide. Christopher has 433,000 YouTube subscribers and almost 495,000 Facebook followers.
Christopher also partners with casinos inward conducting expansion slot demonstrations. Earlier this year, the Plaza Hotel and Casino inwards downtown Las Vegas opened a one-armed bandit simple machine area named for Christopher. The Plaza allows smoking on the cassino floor, according to the resort’s website.
Randy Hayden, a Baton Rouge-based consultant for Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, said social media influencers, such as Christopher, draw a unexampled propagation of patrons to casinos. These customers require a “clean, healthy, smoke-free” gaming environment, Hayden said.
“Smart operators testament have inwards breast of this reality and usage a smoke-free venue as a marketing strategy that non only if brings inwards unexampled money, but protects their employees, customers and vendors,” Hayden said.
Shreveport Smoking Ban Nears 100 Days
Hayden was a Florida key figure inwards the recent thrust to ban smoking at riverboat casinos inwards Shreveport, a metropolis on the Red River inward the northwesterly street corner of boot-shaped Louisiana.
In July, the Shreveport City Council tabled a measure by King James I Flurry, the council president, to permit smoking inwards Shreveport’s 2 riverboat casinos.
Flurry said a censor could aim patrons to play halls crosswise the river inward Bossier City, where smoking is allowed. Fewer gambling casino customers inward Shreveport would track to chore losses at that city’s casinos, he claimed.
Hayden contended “a goodness marketing campaign” would pull in nonsmokers to Shreveport casinos.
The smoking censor took effectuate on Aug. 1.
On Nov. 9, the Smokefree Pelican State Coalition is hosting a “100-day smoke-free celebration” inward Shreveport, Hayden told Casino.org.
Few Las Vegas Casinos Ban Smoking
In Las Vegas, smoking has either been prohibited or restricted in a small keep down of casinos on the Strip.
Last year, Park MGM became the first “fully smoke-free” hotel-casino on the holiday resort corridor. NoMad Las Vegas, a luxuriousness “hotel-within-a-hotel” at Park MGM, also has prohibited smoking. Mungo Park MGM and NoMad are on the westward face of the Strip, near T-Mobile Arena, home of the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights.
Two other properties on the west face of the Strip, Resorts World Las Vegas and the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, appropriate smoking on the gaming floor, but prohibit it elsewhere.
Some cassino patrons require smoking bans to follow decided past businesses, non public officials. type A reader identified as Connie Townsend latterly commented on a Casino.org story that gambling casino customers the likes of to fume while gambling.
“Private property rights, owners choice,” she wrote. “Read the Constitution!”