{"id":189203,"date":"2021-10-15T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T21:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=189203"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T22:13:00","slug":"slot-machine-expert-brian-christopher-sticking-to-smoke-free-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/slot-machine-expert-brian-christopher-sticking-to-smoke-free-casinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot Machine Expert Brian Christopher Sticking to Smoke-Free Casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning in January, slot machine guru Brian Christopher will begin to distance himself from casinos that allow patrons to smoke.<\/p>\n

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Slot machine expert Brian Christoper, right, instructs a patron at the Plaza Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Christopher partners with casinos in providing slot machine instruction. (Image: Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christopher told Casino.org<\/i> he will \u201cprioritize\u201d smoke-free casinos, starting Jan. 1, 2022. One year later, on Jan. 1, 2023, Christopher will \u201cexclusively partner\u201d with casinos that ban smoking.<\/p>\n

With 13 percent of the US population smoking these days, it no longer makes sense\u00a0to force 100 percent of patrons and staff to breathe in the harmful chemicals, and that includes myself and my staff,\u201d Christopher told Casino.org<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On his YouTube channel, “Brian Christopher Slots,\u201d the social media influencer posts daily videos with lessons on how to play slot machines at casinos worldwide. Christopher has 433,000 YouTube subscribers and almost 495,000 Facebook followers.<\/p>\n

Christopher also partners with casinos in conducting slot demonstrations. Earlier this year, the Plaza Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas opened a slot machine area<\/a> named for Christopher. The Plaza allows smoking on the casino floor, according to the resort\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Randy Hayden, a Baton Rouge-based consultant for Americans for Nonsmokers\u2019 Rights, said social media influencers, such as Christopher, attract a new generation of patrons to casinos. These customers want a \u201cclean, healthy, smoke-free\u201d gaming environment, Hayden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmart operators will get in front of this reality and use a smoke-free venue as a marketing strategy that not only brings in new money, but protects their employees, customers and vendors,\u201d Hayden said.<\/p>\n

Shreveport Smoking Ban Nears 100 Days<\/h2>\n

Hayden was a key figure in the recent push to ban smoking at riverboat casinos in Shreveport, a city on the Red River in the northwestern corner of boot-shaped Louisiana.<\/p>\n

In July, the Shreveport City Council tabled a measure<\/a> by James Flurry, the council president, to allow smoking in Shreveport\u2019s two riverboat casinos.<\/p>\n

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Flurry said a ban could drive patrons to gambling halls across the river in Bossier City, where smoking is allowed. Fewer casino customers in Shreveport would lead to job losses at that city\u2019s casinos, he claimed.<\/p>\n

Hayden contended \u201c<\/i>a good marketing campaign\u201d would attract nonsmokers to\u00a0<\/span>Shreveport casinos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The smoking ban took effect on Aug. 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Nov. 9, the Smokefree Louisiana Coalition is hosting a \u201c100-day smoke-free celebration\u201d in Shreveport, Hayden told Casino.org<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Few Las Vegas Casinos Ban Smoking\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

In Las Vegas, smoking has either been banned or restricted in a small number of casinos on the Strip.<\/p>\n

Last year, Park MGM became the first \u201cfully smoke-free\u201d hotel-casino<\/a> on the resort corridor. NoMad Las Vegas, a luxury \u201chotel-within-a-hotel\u201d at Park MGM, also has banned smoking. Park MGM and NoMad are on the west side of the Strip, near T-Mobile Arena, home of the NHL\u2019s Vegas Golden Knights.<\/p>\n

Two other properties on the west side of the Strip, Resorts World Las Vegas and the\u00a0<\/span>Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, allow smoking on the gaming floor, but prohibit it elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Some casino patrons want smoking bans to be decided by \u00a0businesses, not public officials. A reader identified as Connie Townsend recently commented on a Casino.org<\/i> story that casino customers like to smoke while gambling.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrivate property rights, owners choice,\u201d she wrote. \u201cRead the Constitution!\u201d<\/p>\n

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