smokers have always been in the minority and are even more so now. I'd put decent money that in 15 years or less there will be no smoking laws for casinos just as there are for other public places.

In Las Vegas, you cannot smoke in restaurants any longer, including in and around food courts. if a restaurant wants to cater to smokers, they have to create a seperate but equal area completely isolated form the general area with no "better" facilities.

I'm a non-smoker. I play Poker. I avoid poker rooms in Vegas that allow smoking. I also avoid those that aren't very isolated from the smoking areas or that don't have real walls to keep the smoke out. Strangely enough, when poker rooms went smokeless, business did not drop. smokers still go, they just go a little farther now to light up. of course, they come back to the table and smell like hell but that's another story.

unfortunately, unless you can enforce a no smoking area at the convention, you're probably stuck by abiding by whatever laws govern the venue. if the law allows smoking then you probably can't exclude it.

personally I just hope they ban the sale of all tobacco products but since they're taxed so high the government will never actually want to give up that money and I'm all for making the smokers pay for their right to pollute my air.