MGM Resorts’ move could even spur other casino companies to follow a similar strategy. Stutz, who also serves as executive editor of gambling industry trade publication CDC Gaming Reports, predicted there likely will be some pushback from smokers and smokers’ rights groups, but said he expects the move to stick. “So many other gaming markets, notably Maryland, are nonsmoking.” “For Park MGM and NoMad, the timing now due to Covid-19 health and safety guidelines seems right,” Stutz wrote in an email. Just in case people didn't already get the message.
