Donald Trump called on 11 casinos to sue over a new smoking ban approved by the Atlantic City Council, arguing that it created a competitive disadvantage.

The real estate magnate, chairman of a company that owns three casinos in Atlantic City, said he would not file his own suit but wants the Casino Association of New Jersey to stop the ban from taking effect in October.

"I'm not a smoker, and I don't personally like what smoking does to people," Trump told The Associated Press in an interview in his Manhattan office. "But this puts us at a huge disadvantage."

Slot parlors in the Philadelphia area, which have been stealing many of Atlantic City's most profitable and reliable customers over the past year and a half, permit them to smoke while gambling. Some smokers shunned Atlantic City last April when the city imposed a partial ban that restricts smoking to no more than 25 percent of the casino floor.

But anti-smoking advocates said the partial restriction didn't work. The smoking areas were not walled off and separated from nonsmoking areas, as last year's law had called for, and smoke still wafts throughout the casino floor.

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What about having just a smoking and non smoking area in which smoke doesnt enter the non smoking area?

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I agree with wallstreeterww, what use is it having the non smoking and smoking sections in the same room? The smoke will just fill the room either way.

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Don't the laws normally make exceptions for private, members only clubs and things like that? That might be the UK though... but if that is the case it would provide a loophole that they could exploit.

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