Last Friday, Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (CEASE) and the United Auto Workers (UAW), which represents Atlantic City casino workers, filed a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey over loopholes in the Smoke-Free Air Act. While this is big news for New Jersey, it does not affect Pennsylvania’s fight to ban smoking inside casinos.

CEASE members did not give PlayPennsylvania any indication that a lawsuit would be filed in the Keystone State. It is hoping Allegheny County Democratic Rep. Dan Frankel’s House Bill 1657 is able to close loopholes of the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2008.

Garden State casino workers are taking matters into their own hands by suing the state over the smoke-filled air inside casinos. The lawsuit challenges exemptions under the Smoke-Free Air Act, which, CEASE claims, violates the New Jersey State Constitution on three grounds.