It does seem like one of the last taboos that American society upholds, and the others have fallen so easily. But you have to admit there are many ways for them to argue for it. I'm not saying that would be a good idea. Instead of asking for longer liquor hours or sports betting, maybe they will consider asking for legal prostitution. Now that gambling, even legal marijuana, is becoming practically ubiquitous, it may take some new groundbreaking sin center to keep traffic counts up at their rural reservations.

It makes me think that maybe, just maybe, the tribes are going to need a really big expansion of the vices available on their reservations. The Connecticut tribes are also, no doubt, thinking about a push to match here in Connecticut the extended hours for liquor service at MGM Springfield, where you will be able to drink until 4 a.m. Still, it is hard to imagine building a business strategy on that kind of addiction, though I guess big tobacco has been doing that for years. I'm a reformed smoker, and I've evolved from my early no-smoking years, when I was still envious of people enjoying a long drag, to bewilderment now when I see people light up, wondering how they can continue in the face of such overwhelming evidence of the harm they are doing to themselves. I was taken aback a bit to read that one strategy for Connecticut's Indian tribes to compete with the emerging casino industry in Massachusetts - including the spanking new Springfield MGM, which opens later this week - is to emphasize that gamblers can smoke here on tribal gaming floors.

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