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Some Las Vegas casinos limit smoking at table games

Several casinos on the strip are now limiting smoking to keep people from removing their masks. At the Wynn, if you're playing table games without a plexiglass barrier you can no longer smoke at the table. Las Vegas Sands is also asking people not to smoke or vape at tables inside the Venetian or Plazzo.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Several Las Vegas casinos are limiting smoking to keep patrons from removing the protective face masks they are required to wear.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. in mid-June updated its policy to ask table game players and spectators do not smoke or vape in its Venetian and Palazzo resorts.

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Wynn Resorts Ltd. has designated any table games without a plexiglass barrier as nonsmoking areas inside its Wynn and Encore casinos on the Las Vegas Strip.

Meanwhile, Nevada on Wednesday reported 849 new cases of COVID-19, a decline from a day earlier, when the state set a new daily high of 1,104 cases .

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