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Representative Dan Frankel of Allegheny County, a Democrat, has introduced House Bill 1657, also known as the \u201cProtecting Workers from Secondhand Smoke Act.\u201d The bill aims to eliminate the smoking exemption in the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2008, which currently allows smoking in casinos and other designated facilities.<\/p>\n<p>This legislative move follows a period during the COVID-19 pandemic when mask mandates temporarily curbed indoor smoking. 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Presently, only two casino locations in Pennsylvania maintain smoke-free policies, both belonging to Parx Casino. Parx has reported strong financial performance despite its smoke-free stance.<\/p>\n<p>The debate surrounding indoor smoking in casinos aligns with the broader national trend toward smoke-free environments. Many casinos across the United States, including tribal gaming venues and select commercial casinos, have already implemented smoke-free policies.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/casino-news\/pennsylvania-considers-banning-indoor-smoking-in-casinos-and-public-places\/\">Pennsylvania Considers Banning Indoor Smoking in Casinos and Public Places<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/\">iGaming.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania is revisiting the prospect of prohibiting indoor smoking in its commercial casinos. Representative Dan Frankel of Allegheny County, a Democrat, has introduced House Bill 1657, also known as the \u201cProtecting Workers from Secondhand Smoke Act.\u201d The bill aims to eliminate the smoking exemption in the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2008, which currently allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}