Separating smokers from nonsmokers, cleaning the air, opening windows, and ventilating buildings does not eliminate secondhand smoke exposure.

Eliminating smoking in indoor spaces is the only way to fully protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke exposure. More than 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and about 70 that can cause cancer can be found in second hand smoke. Absolutely reprehensible! The Centers for Disease Control for the United States is clear on this subject and second hand smoke has the potential to kill you. I find it reprehensible for someone to sit down next to a complete stranger (or anyone for that matter) and light up a cigarette. Why the Chumash Community could allow this to go on is beyond me. The smoking in this casino should be criminal. It's the ultimate revenge of the Native American.

The casino's electronic slots are keenly efficient when it comes to extracting dollars from a sector of the American public, but they can't produce or manage a concert event. His response: 'Everybody's in the same boat, just keep driving around until you find a space.' We missed one of Mathis's two sets entirely, and had to walk through a smoke-filled casino to secure our seats (folding chairs) in a non-tiered, no slope, auditorium to catch his second set. When we were finally back at street level, a parking attendant was twirling his flashlight and we asked where we could park. Drove to the top of the four-level facility to discover that it terminated in a dead end! Each car had to make a K-turn to turn around and drive back down.

When we entered the casino's parking garage, the electronic sign at the entrance said there were 58 empty spaces there were none.

Finally secured a parking space at 8:45 pm (you read correctly). We drove on to the casino property at 7:15. Should have stuck with our memories - but not because of Johnny. Had last seen him in the summer of '64 in Atlantic City, NJ. Went to see Johnny Mathis at Chumash Casino on Valentine's Day.

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