John Stall

We are in Las Vegas for a few days of R&R and for a family celebration.  This place is, on many levels, like no place on the planet. A place where money loses all value in a casino.  A place where no amount of money has been spared building the hotels and casinos that are larger than many small towns, and it’s a place where you could spend from hundreds to millions of dollars on anything want from condo’s to cars, to jewelry to Lear jets - but it’s hard to find an OUTDOOR patio bar-restaurant-where you can smoke. 

Now this may not sound as bizarre as I’m making it out to be when you consider the number of North American cities, including Toronto, that have extended their smoking bans to outdoor patios sheltered by umbrellas that are touching as opposed to those with no umbrellas, but this city allows smoking INSIDE many of the grandest of hotels and in ALL of the casinos.  Ash trays are happily passed out at all if not most of the card tables and slot machines.  Anyone who sits down at a black-jack table or row of slot machines  and who objects to those around them who are smoking, quickly realizes this place is different from where they come from.

I guess the by-law makers of Nevada figure the air-cleaning technology inside the casinos and hotels that gambling money can buy is more capable of saving the lives (from second-hand smoke) of the gazillions of people who spend 24-7 in them than mother natures open air desert can of the few who sit outside.  In fact, it’s hard to find an outdoor patio on which you can sit and have a drink or light meal.  Wonder why they want everybody inside? Where smoking is allowed and their is no limit to the amount of money you want to gamble.

Viva Las Vegas! 

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