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...

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.

Johnson and Johnson, makers of Chantix and Nicoderm, fund the bans through their Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-RWJo...

The American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, and the American Heart Association received millions to sell smoking bans from RWJ Foundation. These bans are nothing but clever marketing strategy.

http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?ia=14...

And what the 99 million dollars was going to. Note on page seven the "inside -out", provision going for patios later, AFTER business owners spend thousands of dollars to build them to accommodate their smoking customers, clearly showing that the tobacco control activists have ABSOLUTLY NO CONCERN about local issues or businesses. You may need to CTRL and scoll to enlarge it.

http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Fundamen...

Why don't you support the smoke free casinos in Illinois? They NEED you. The surrounding states are laughing at the politicians in Illinois as gamblers are flooding the casinos in their states.

Here in Chicago, many small neighborhood bars ignore the ban. One has been on TV and it increased his business with all the free publicity. He is considered by many patriots as a local hero. Many of the bars are doing it to survive. There's something un-american about just laying down to die without fighting tyranny. The neighbors appreciate the lack of groups of people gathering on their otherwise quiet streets.

Stephanie Steinberg, chairwoman of Smoke Free Gaming of Colorado, said that in her state, where casino workers aren't unionized, getting smoking banned required unusual tactics.

She and fellow campaigners played at blackjack tables to strike up conversations with dealers and waitresses about secondhand smoke. Soon, her group had persuaded dozens of employees to show up at off-site locations that stayed open until 4 a.m. so they could be tested for nicotine levels in their urine. Steinberg's group also walked through casinos with personal air-monitoring devices used by asthmatics to measure air quality. They eventually persuaded legislators to extend Colorado's clean-air act, already enforced in restaurants and other public places, to casinos.

But Connecticut casinos and others may soon be facing challenges. Ms. Steinberg is taking her fight from Colorado to Nevada. Other smoking-ban efforts are under way in Iowa and Missouri. Pennsylvania casinos instituted a closely watched partial smoking ban last week. Casinos in these states are expected to
vigorously oppose full smoking bans.

At least the Vegas casinos can make their own choice.