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Once bans are in place, people have already made other travel plans. The damage cannot be undone.
The Illinois casinos must be affected by the same recession. The recession has no effect to the casinos a few hundred feet away across the river that is the state line. Rivers are a good barrier against recessions.
They need to visit Indiana right now. The main person behind their ban wants to exempt casinos to pass it. It's being discussed this week.
A short time after the Illinois ban started, Indiana casinos were advertising job openings on Illinois radio to attract experienced laid off Illinois casino workers. Illinois casinos are down nearly 20 percent, Indiana 1 or 2 percent.
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Johnson and Johnson, the makers of Chantix and Nicoderm, fund the bans through their Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-RWJo...
Many tax exempt political action committees (charities?) received millions to lobby for smoking bans from the RWJ Foundation. These bans are nothing but clever marketing strategy, with lots of highly publicized "sky is falling" hype, similar to gun control tactics;
"Gun ownership disease"
http://www.nrapublications.org/SG/index_...
Tobacco control funding sources for "social change" to handle the "tobacco problem"
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?ia=14...
Here are the Political Action Committees they support.
http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Fundamen...
Since current bans didn't help businesses, now they are being given grants to enforce their bans, admitting that bans don't help business.
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicit...
The bans are a resounding success, for Pfizer.
http://www.emoneydaily.com/pfizer-nysepf...