“It never should have happened that way,” he said Thursday. Richard Codey, a Democrat who previously served as governor, said the compromise was enacted under his tenure as the state’s top elected official as the price for getting a smoking ban for the rest of the state through the Legislature. New Jersey’s law banning smoking in public businesses specifically exempts Atlantic City’s casinos. “We have to endure hours on the job with secondhand smoke in our faces without the ability to turn away,” added Nicole Vitola, another Borgata dealer active in the anti-smoking effort. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
