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Originally Posted by AGDee
If the concern is for the workers, then why would casinos be exempt? If we really care about workers, then we wouldn't allow mining or steel mills or a lot of the other extremely dangerous jobs out there. It is all about who is in the back pockets of the politicians. Shoot, I worked as a counter girl at the dry cleaner and the chemicals I was exposed to were downright scary.
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While I agree with you (in terms of the casinos), I think this argument falls short. There's a difference between on-the-job dangers, and those that are brought on by employees. If I'm looking for a part-time job, I could work at Subway, McDonald's, the ice cream shop down the street, I could babysit my neighbor's kids, or work at a dry cleaners. I might look at all of those and think, "Which will cause me the most harm?" and eliminate the dry cleaners from the list. I'm still left with 80% of my original options.
However, let's say smoking is allowed in all of those places. Now my possibility of getting a job has gone from 100% down to 0.
I'm not arguing that smoking should definitely not be allowed anywhere, I'm just making a point that you're really comparing apples and oranges.
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