Non-Smoking Legislation Proves Fatal for Many Bingos

The New York Times has published another article about the negative effects non-smoking has on charitable bingo.

For good or bad,bingo seems to attract smokers. And, when given the choice between a non-smoking charity bingo at the local bingo hall, or bingo with smoking at a casino, players will usually pick the casino.

Again, our position is that if Michigan passes non-smoking legislation, they need to excempt charitable bingo. Otherwise, they're giving an unfair advantage to casinos and many charities and veterans groups will be hurt.

For more information, please see Stephanie Strom After the Smoke Cleared, Where Did All the Bingo Players Go? New York Times, Apirl 24, 2008.