September 20, 2007

Tony Rodio, Regional President of the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort and Resorts Atlantic City

"We propose that no dollars be wasted constructing walls or smoking lounges that are unsightly or ineffective on the casino floor, and that the industry, state and city all agree that each casino will be 100 percent smokefree at some point in the future."

Quoted In:

Rodio, T., "Rodio: scrap lounges, build attractions," Press of Atlantic City, September 20, 2007.

J. Carlos Tolosa, Eastern Division President, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.

"We are committed to improving the work environment for our employees. I believe this smoke-free ordinance provides our industry with a fair transitional guideline for better workplace conditions."

Quoted In:

Parry, W., "5 Atlantic City Casinos Going Smoke-Free," Associated Press, September 12, 2007.

J. Carlos Tolosa, Eastern Division President, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.

''Harrah's Entertainment fully-supports the Atlantic City Council's approved ordinance designating smoke-free zones within our resorts. We are committed to improving the work environment for our employees and we thank the Council for working with us on this important issue.''

Quoted In:

Sokolic, W.H., "Harrah's to create smoking lounges," Courier-Post, September 12, 2007.

Fred Buro, President, Tropicana Atlantic City, NJ

"Everybody's in the same boat. Everybody thinks everything should be smokefree,” Buro said of Atlantic City's desire to see a smoking ban spread to competing markets."

Quoted In:

Wittkowski, D., "Time runs down for smoking at casinos," Press of Atlantic City, April 2, 2007

Fred Buro, President, Tropicana Atlantic City, NJ

"We think ultimately everybody will end up in the long run, and maybe the short run, smoke-free."

Quoted In:

Jones, C., "Casino smoking crackdowns not just in A.C.," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 2007.

Joseph Vitale, New Jersey Senator

"Surely, the powerful and creative minds who built the colossal monuments of the gambling industry in Atlantic City can conjure up ways to keep luring people to casinos without killing the help."

Quoted In:

Hester, Jr., T., "Complete casino smoking ban sought by senators," Associated Press, February 21, 2007.

James B. Perry, Chief Executive Officer of Trump Entertainment Resorts, NJ

"Generally speaking, we believe over the next three-year period smoking will be banned in almost all casinos throughout the United States or certainly on the eastern seaboard. Longterm, we have to be prepared to operate these casinos in a smoke-free environment."

Quoted In:

Harper, D., "Atlantic City Council bans most casino smoking: compromise ban clears the air on 75 percent of gaming floors," Press of Atlantic City, February 8, 2007.

Joseph Weinert, Vice president of the Spectrum Gaming Group, an international consulting firm based in New Jersey

"I think every Atlantic City casino operator and every state-regulated casino operator in the country realizes at some point they're going to have to be smoke-free."

Quoted In:

Giordano, R., "Smoke ban in the cards?," Philadelphia Inquirer, February 5, 2007.

Marc Kaplan, Marketing Director, Taos Mountain Casino, NM

"If you put a gun to my head and we went to smoking, it would hurt our revenue. My biggest marketing tool is being smoke-free."

Quoted In:

Giordano, R., "Smoke ban in the cards?," Philadelphia Inquirer, February 5, 2007.

Ed Suttor, Dover Downs Operating Officer, DE

"I think it's going to happen inevitably across the United States. There's an old saying: You have lemons, you make lemonade. We're advertising that we're smoke-free."

Quoted In:

Giordano, R., "Smoke ban in the cards?," Philadelphia Inquirer, February 5, 2007.

"We [Casino Regina] certainly look on the whole non-smoking policy by the government as a very positive thing. We think it's good for the casino, and, on the public side, we think it's good to have a completely smoke-free facility," said Bill Davies, a spokesperson for the Crown corporation that operates Casino Regina and Casino Moose Jaw.

Quoted In:

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"They'll eventually go nonsmoking or they will go out of business," said Weldon Russell, corporate director of bingo, keno and poker for Station Casinos.

Quoted In:

^{Benston, L., "More poker rooms going smoke-free," Las Vegas Sun, February 14, 2005. Downloaded at http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/gaming/2005/feb/14/518288620.html.}

Gary DeWitt, Manager of the Palace Station poker room, said the move was good for business, "I'm 100% for it [smokefree policy]. The time was right."

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"[We're] as fully prepared as can be reasonably expected… [The] clarity around the [smokefree] law would mean that people know what to expect, there's no confusion…We think the business is well set to move forward, and we're pretty well placed to accommodate the regulatory changes," said Evan Davies, chief executive of Sky City Entertainment Group, New Zealand's gambling industry leader.

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