He said he’s writing a new measure incorporating proposals favored by the casino industry while still working toward the goal of keeping secondhand smoke away from workers and customers who don’t want it. Vince Polistina, a Republican from the Atlantic City area who has appeared with casino workers at rallies in favor of a smoking ban, said the original bill is going nowhere.

They said it was inappropriate and not allowed here.”Īngry workers said they want the state’s top Democratic leadership to force a vote on the original bill that would impose a total smoking ban, but the likelihood of such a vote remains unclear. “We wanted to know if it’s OK if we did that in their workplace. “They say it’s OK for secondhand smoke to be blown in our faces all day, every day,” Vicente said afterward. He and the others were soon escorted from the hearing room by State Police, and released without charges. “We’re not allowed to smoke in your workplace, but you’re allowed to smoke in ours,” Daniel Vicente, a regional director of the union, told lawmakers through a cloud of exhaled smoke. Seven members of the union, which represents dealers at three casinos in Atlantic City, began smoking in the meeting hall of the State House Annex, where, like virtually all other workplaces in New Jersey, smoking is prohibited. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor

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