![]() ![]() Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (CEASE) formed in 2021 and has grown exponentially since then. They had just experienced a year of a smokefree work environment in the early days of the pandemic. Since smoking returned on July 4, 2021, Atlantic City casino workers have been fed up. While I’m not sure we will ever know the exact cause of my illness, I can’t help but wonder if it would have happened had I not worked in casinos - or better yet, if casinos didn’t force me to breathe in secondhand smoke all throughout my shifts… For workers like me, this is literally a life-or-death fight.” “After working in casinos for nearly 40 years, I was recently diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. It’s about Atlantic City casino dealers like Tammy Brady, who wrote about having to return to a smoke-filled workplace as she battles cancer because she still needs income to pay the bills: Monday’s first-ever hearing on legislation to close the casino smoking loophole in New Jersey – 17 years in the making – is first and foremost about protecting the health of thousands of New Jersey workers who are exposed to dangerous secondhand smoke every single day at their workplaces that causes cancer and cardiovascular disease. RE: Ahead of Monday’s Casino Smoking Hearing: What You Need to Know
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