"Second-hand smoke cost me a job. When I was pregnant with my daughter eighteen years ago, I worked at a casino in Sparks. I told my supervisor that I was pregnant. It was early in my pregnancy, but I was having problems and was afraid of something happening while at work and wanted someone to know. I felt I could trust my supervisor. I worked in the cash cage which doesn't deal with the public and you were allowed to smoke in there. No cigarette breaks, just a constant clogged atmosphere of stale, static of smokey air. I never complained or said anything about the smoke. A couple of days after I told my supervisor, one of the women I worked with told me she had heard that I was pregnant and said to me, 'I hope you don't expect me to stop smoking.' I was floored and didn't know what to say. It was such a cruel, selfish response, not to mention completely invasive. A week or so after this incident I was fired. In 18 years, I've never gone back."
–Carmen Thomas, former casino employee