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Jump to full article: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), 2008-05-04
Author: L.W. Hunley
Intro: It seems every time there is an article about the downturn in casino revenues in Colorado the emphasis of blame seems to be on the affect of the smoking ban. The latest article “Casinos say revenue going up in smoke” by Joanne Kelley is just the latest example. To the contrary I for one am more likely to go to Colorado casinos because of the smoking ban. However there are other factors in my opinion that are much more likely. During my latest visits to Mesquite and Las Vegas, for example, the papers there say that they too are suffering from a reduction in revenue and of course smoking or non-smoking is not the issue there. The emphasis of blame by those area casinos is the economy and gas prices, which seems more likely to be the case.
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