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Yesterday morning, after 16 years of stagnation, it looked like a bill to eliminate exemptions for casinos to the indoor smoking ban was finally going to move.
And then it didnt. The long-anticipated meeting of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee ended without taking action on the bill, despite supporters spending hours trying to wrangle the votes.
This really shows you how much juice the casino industry has. The last time this bill actually got a vote was in 2007 in the state Senate, when it passed 35-0. Sixty-five percent of senators are either prime or co-sponsors of the bill. And yet it cant get it out of a committee chaired by Sen. Joe Vitale (D-Middlesex), whos spen…
Read the full article at: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-jersey-playbook/2023/12/01/casinos-still-smokin-00129474