Las Vegas Strip Faces New Casino Smoking Ban
Las Vegas has a reputation as a place where anything goes.
It's a land of vices where people are encouraged to gamble, eat rich foods, and generally push the bounds when it comes to excess. And the Las Vegas Strip feels like a place where everything is legal — and most things are.
You need not go far from the Strip to buy legal cannabis: Planet 13, which sits about a mile off the Strip, offers an array of marijuana products ranging from smokeable and edible cannabis to beverages, vapes, and pretty much anything else you can imagine.
Prostitution isn't legal on the Las Vegas Strip, but escort services nonetheless advertise on billboards mounted on trucks that drive up and down the Strip. In that case legal is a relative term as the law doesn't seem to be enforced.
Another example: In nearly all of the country, it's not legal to smoke indoors. But Las Vegas casinos have been exempt from the laws that ban smoking indoors.
That's an effort to protect workers from second-hand smoke, and the majority of Nevada residents support a ban on smoking in casinos, according to a new survey.
