Happy Labor Day: Courts Back Casinos over Workers Hoping to Avoid Cancer

This Labor Day workers who hoped the state’s court system would end Trenton’s exemption for Atlantic City’s casinos from the state’s 2006 Smoke-Free Air Act that entitles workers to work in a smoke free environment were dealt a real disappointment by a judge who sided with the casino industry to keep the oppressively toxic exemption in place. According to the U.

S. Surgeon General, there is no safe level of second hand smoke which the American Cancer Society confirms contains at least 70 chemicals “known to cause cancer and trigger heart attacks, asthma attacks, and respiratory illness.

” The New York Times reported that in Judge Patrick J. Bartels ruling he asserted the state’s Smoke-Free Air Act did not “intrude upon a […].

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