Public support

public opinion

New Jersey voters overwhelmingly support smokefree casinos (autumn 2007, Monmouth University Polling Institute)

survey news release

survey questions, with percentages of support

survey results, in charts

support for smokefree New Jersey casinos by potential patrons, survey by ICR (international market research organization)

survey news brief

Survey on New Jersey's Proposed Clean Idoor Air Act

1,500 e-letters to legislators supporting smokefree casinos are on www.smokefree.net/nj; click on "see letters already sent" to read them. (Registration, with no obligation, is required to see the letters.)

7,000 petition signatures for smokefree casinos are on www.smokefreecasinos.com

80% of regular gamblers want smokefree gaming; 5% increase in patronage is indicated (2006 survey of 3,000 Australians)

short summary

full report

resolutions by municipal governments supporting smokefree casinos

short summary

sample resolution

New Jersey municipalities that have passed resolutions

population data

majority of gamblers are nonsmokers

"Smoking rates among gamblers at Nevada casinos mirror U.S. smoking rate", Tobacco Control, February, 2008

December 2006 study by University of Nevada

press release from the University of Nevada at Reno

full study

overwhelming majority of New Jerseyans are nonsmokers

overwhelming majority of people in neighboring states are nonsmokers (select state of interest in left hand navigation bar)

 

This page updated March 1, 2007