Small proportions of actively-smoking patrons and high PM2.5 levels in southern California tribal casinos: support for smoking bans or designated smoking areas

Table 4 Patron and active-smoker counts and active-smoker proportions for smoking table and slot games by casino ^a

	Table Games – Main Area			Table Games – High Stakes^b			Slot Machines – Main Area			Slot Machines – High Stakes
Casino	Total Patrons	Smokers	% Active Smokers	Total Patrons	Smokers	% Active Smokers	Total Patrons	Smokers	% Active Smokers	Total Patrons	Smokers	% Active Smokers
A	440	23	5.23	22	1	4.55	1440	136	9.44	25	1	4.00
B	640	38	5.94	75	7	9.33	1217	111	9.12	23	6	26.09
C	428	31	7.24	-	-	-	1087	93	8.56	26	3	11.54
D	744	50	6.72	14	1	7.14	1746	113	6.47	78	7	8.97
E	470	43	9.15	24	1	4.17	1708	126	7.38	9	1	11.11
F^c	319	33	10.35	145	5	3.45	1518	163	10.74	43	9	20.93
G	193	8	4.15	5	1	20.00	755	74	9.80	16	2	12.50
H	250	23	9.20	-	-	-	1527	145	9.50	1	0	0.00
I	389	31	7.97	13	1	7.69	1827	121	6.62	17	5	29.41
J	123	5	4.07	-	-	-	1480	136	9.19	78	4	5.13
K	373	21	5.63	64	5	7.81	1246	121	9.71	101	16	15.84
TOTAL	4369	306	7.00	362	22	6.08	15551	1339	8.61	417	54	12.95

^aData shown are for smoking-allowed areas only and combine both visits to each casino. All active-smoker proportions for smoking areas expressed as percentages (% Active Smokers). Main smoking area slot or table areas had low-stake games and occupied most of each casino’s gaming capacity (see Table 2).
^bEntries with a dash (“-”) indicate that no separate game tables were present in the corresponding casino.
^cThe second visit to Casino F is excluded from the data in this table. On the day of this visit, we noted that the patron occupancy was much higher than the first visit, resulting in an occupancy that was 3.6 times that on the first visit and a decrease in active smoker counts by 7%. All the per-visit data for Casino F, and all the other casinos, are presented in Table 3.

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