sovereign entity<\/a>, the Navajo Nation has the freedom to determine its own indoor smoking laws. Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR), the leading organization working to ban indoor casino smoking across the country, claims smoke-free casinos are good for business.<\/p>\nANR points to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. that shows 86.3 percent of US adults do not smoke. The American Cancer Society adds that insurance premiums for workers employed inside smoke-free casinos are drastically lower. The average annual premium drops from $1,145 for a smoking casino employee to $762 for a non-smoking gaming staffer.<\/p>\n
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The Navajo Nation’s 2021 fall legislative session certainly isn’t the first time a motion to douse indoor smoking at the tribe’s casinos has been initiated. Such efforts have permeated the council since at least 2008.<\/p>\n
The ANR says Navajo Nation passing an indoor tobacco ban would follow a national trend of tribal casinos requiring guests to go outdoors to light up. The anti-smoking advocacy says there are more than 1,000 gaming venues in the United States that are currently 100 percent smoke-free indoors, including 154 tribal casinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Navajo Nation casinos in Arizona and New Mexico could become permanently free of indoor tobacco smoke. The Navajo Nation owns and operates four tribal casinos. While indoor smoking is temporarily suspended at each gaming property, that is slated to change when COVID-19 conditions improve in New Mexico and Arizona, where the casinos are located. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":189325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13592,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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