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• Will our casinos keep smoking? 

Observers of the gambling industry said casinos in the mid-Atlantic region increasingly are going smoke-free. New Jersey joins Delaware, which banned smoking at casinos in 2002.

Some Midwestern states, such as Illinois and Colorado, also have banned smoking in gambling parlors.

Atlantic City's ban likely will make it easier for lawmakers to ban smoking at Pennsylvania's casinos, said Clyde Barrow, director of the Center for Public Analysis at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

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