“In 2006 Nevadans made the important decision to eliminate smoking in most indoor workplaces, with the notable exceptions of casinos and stand-alone bars. In Washoe County we see that by allowing smoking in these few remaining indoor workplaces, we are continuing to put the health of people in our community at risk. Ensuring smoke-free workplaces for everyone in Washoe County will improve health and quality of life, while also reducing healthcare costs.”

–Kevin Dick, District Health Officer, Washoe County Health District

“The science here is clear. We’re exposing people who don’t want to be smokers, as if they were smokers, to carcinogens and toxins. We are putting them at risk. We shouldn’t be doing that.”

–Iain Buxton, Cardiovascular Pharmacologist, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Nevada School of Medicine
 

“I have a [patient] who worked in a casino for many decades who had stage three adenocarcinoma of the lung and no smoking in her history, no family history of smoking. The only identifiable risk factor that I had for her was her long decades of working in a closed casino environment.”

–Dr. Aleem Surani, Pulmonary Critical Care Specialist, Northern Nevada Medical Center 

“The direction of this economy is to support individual outdoor sports. It's mountain biking, it's hiking. It's running in the in the mountains, skiing, and that kind of physical activity does not sit well with smoking. So if you really want to promote the area as an outdoor sports area, we need to provide more smoke-free environments.”

–Dr. Marc Johnson, Former President, University of Nevada Reno