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Despite the Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act passing in 2010, casinos remain one of the final ungoverned places, despite warnings from health groups and from casino workers themselves.
“I have a wife and a son who I want to be with for a very long time,” Joseph Hafley, casino employee, said. “Getting rid of secondhand smoke in casinos would do that.”
Gambling industry lobbyists say a bipartisan bill that would prohibit smoking in Kansas casinos would drive customers away.
Kansans seeking to buy tobacco products now must be 21 years of age or older, under legislation signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Laura Kelly.
Gov. Laura Kelly signs bipartisan bill extending Medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months, improving health care for about 9,000 Kansas mothers.