Pennsylvania casinos lift indoor smoking ban

As part of the easing of Covid-19 countermeasures, casinos in Pennsylvania will allow people to smoke inside the venues.

US.- Following the decision to lift the use of masks inside casinos, The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has now decided to allow indoor smoking again at the state’s 14 casinos.

The regulator’s spokesperson Doug Harbach said: “We made the determination that the smoking ban was directly related to mask-wearing and it was time to lift it. We informed the casinos last week that they can permit smoking again on the gaming floor per the Clean Indoor Air Act today.”

Mohegan Sun Pocono has already allowed smoking again on gaming floors, but its president and general manager Anthony Carlucci said it was still evaluating smoking in bars and lounges prior to their reopening.

State law bans most smoking in public places except for at casinos, which are permitted to allow smoking on up to 50 per cent of their gaming floor.