“Smoking has always been allowed at Pennsylvania’s casinos,” said Penn National VP of Public Affairs and Government Relations Jeff Morris. “We strive to be a leader in this highly competitive business environment, and this is only obtainable when we can compete on a level playing field.”<\/p>\n
Morris says the company’s Hollywood Casino uses an air filtration system to keep its indoor air quality high.<\/p>\n
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, 17 percent of all Pennsylvanians regularly smoke. That’s down from 22.4 percent in 2012. Smoke-related lung problems were responsible for 22,000 deaths in Pennsylvania last year alone.<\/p>\n
The Center for Disease Control says secondhand smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, hundreds of which are toxic and 70 with the ability to cause cancer.<\/p>\n
\nThere is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. It causes respiratory infections, ear infections, and more frequent and severe asthma in children, as well as stroke, lung cancer, and coronary heart disease in adults,” the CDC reports.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The CDC says secondhand smoke causes nearly 34,000 premature deaths annually. Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work have a 25-30 percent elevated risk of developing heart disease.<\/p>\n
The public health institute adds that inhaling secondhand smoke has “immediate adverse effects on your blood and blood vessels, increasing the risk of having a heart attack.” Secondhand smoke causes more than 7,300 lung cancer deaths among US nonsmokers each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pennsylvania casinos allow patrons to light up while gambling in certain designated areas. But one state lawmaker says it’s time to end that loophole. Pittsburgh area Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Squirrel Hill) introduced House Bill 2298 this week, an act to amend the Clean Indoor Air Act. Frankel’s legislation would ban smoking in all indoor public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":126874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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