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No Safe Bets for Casino Workers: NIOSH Study Shows Casino Workers Face Toxic Conditions
Date:5/6/2009

shockwave through the casino industry, with workers growing more concerned about their health. The NIOSH Report findings are posted for workers to review in the three casinos where tests were conducted.

Cynthia Hallett, Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, said, "Casino workers deserve the same rights as other workers, including the right to a healthy safe workplace, free from toxic secondhand smoke. After the release of this report, we hope to see casino workers protected by strong smokefree workplace laws throughout the country."

Nevada's current smokefree workplace law does not cover the gaming areas of casinos. In fact, Nevada legislators are now considering rolling back the state's smokefree workplace law even further. Hallett added "If anything, these results should convince Nevada lawmakers to strengthen their state law to include the gaming floors of casinos, not roll it back to expose more workers to toxic secondhand smoke."

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is a national, member-based, not-for-profit organization based in Berkeley, CA that is dedicated to helping nonsmokers breathe smokefree air in enclosed public places and workplaces.

Links:

Full NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation:

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/2005-0201-3080.pdf

Related findings from Office of the Surgeon General:

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/factsheets/factsheet7.html


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