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For many of us, casino gambling and cigar smoking go together like Frank and Bing. Generations of first-time Vegas visitors have enhanced their experience via frequent applications of cigar smoke, just like those iconic Rat Packers of yesteryear with their impeccable suits, suave manner, and constantly-replenished supplies of alcohol and tobacco.

Which made it all the more surprising, for many cigar lovers, when the Nevada legislature imposed a public-smoking ban in 2006. That ban doesn’t yet apply to Las Vegas gaming floors – there is such a thing as tradition, after all. But Atlantic City recently took Nevada’s ball and ran with it: the New Jersey state legislature has instituted a smoking ban, effective October 2008, which includes the area’s famed casinos.

All of which raises the question: where can a gambling smoker still enjoy a cigar?

Well, part of the answer depends on timing. Ontario, Canada, long a major vacation destination for gamblers, also banned smoking in casinos in 2006. This decision was particularly lamented by American visitors to the area, who took advantage of the Canadian casinos’ proximity to cigar stores that sell banned-in-America Cuban cigars (though it’s technically illegal for Americans abroad to buy Cuban cigars). Ontario’s casinos acknowledged these smokers’ concerns, successfully petitioning the province’s legislature for permission to build special “smoking shelters.” So you can smoke cigars during your visit to an Ontario casino – just wait till you’re off the gaming floor and in the outdoor shelter.

Elsewhere in Canada, consider Edmonton, Alberta – or, actually, just west of it. Though public smoking is banned in Alberta, due to a 2006 ban, the Enoch Cree First Nation has voted to exempt its own casino from this ban. So visitors to the River Cree casino can light up.

Pennsylvania remains another possibility. Casinos fought successfully to be exempted from the statewide smoking ban passed by Governor Ed Rendell in June 2008. As of summer 2008, you can no longer smoke cigars in most Pennsylvania bars and restaurants, but you can smoke in casinos located outside Philadelphia. That leaves such places as Pittsburgh (with the Majestic Star casino slated to open in late 2008), Bethlehem (the Sands Bethworks Casino, also under construction), and a handful of other locations.

The Michigan legislature recently adjourned for the summer without deciding whether not to pass a statewide smoking ban. In the meantime, Wayne County recently passed a ban that exempts casinos. This means that the non-Native owned casinos of Detroit will continue to be able to compete with the state’s several large Native American-owned casinos, which will not be subject to any statewide ban.

Biloxi, Mississippi, remains a favorite for Southern gamblers who like to smoke, owing to its lack of a statewide smoking ban. Though some larger Mississippi cities have banned public smoking, Biloxi remains a smoke-positive place, rendering its nine casinos attractive destinations for a smoker-gambler.

South Dakota casino owners, meanwhile, are relishing the prospects created by a statewide smoking ban recently passed in neighboring Iowa. According to reports in local newspapers, casino owners in North Sioux City are hoping Iowa’s ban will drive smoking gamblers to the state’s many casinos – while they worry that South Dakota might pass a similar law in the near future. After all, half the population of the United States currently lives in an area (state, city or town) where public smoking is proscribed to at least some extent – and the popularity of such bans seems on the increase. Even Mississippi’s state legislature is considering one. So light ‘em while you’ve got ‘em – and no matter where you are, whenever you gamble, check before you light up. It’s not fun to be ejected from a casino!

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We are coming up onto a crossroads two weeks post-global correction that started February 27. The resource stock-laden Canadian TSX Venture Index dropped from 3,274 to 2,955 at closing March 5, a haircut of almost 10%. Since then, it has climbed back up to 3,127 and is looking for direction: will it rise and try to break through a double top (May 2006 being the other peak) or further correct downwards after last week’s bounce?

Since the bulk of North American uranium stocks are listed on the TSXV and generally move more or less in lock and step with the exchange, overall sentiment should be gauged. However, if one is relatively assured that the correction is mostly over and done with, there seems to nothing that can obstruct uranium stocks from buoying higher.

This is because the uranium fundamental story that concretized in many investors’ minds after Cameco’s announcement of its Cigar Lake mine flooding back in October 2006 will now be buttressed by news of another unforseen flooding: the Ranger Mine of Energy Resources of Australia Ltd. (ERA). On March 7, ERA sent out a press release describing the aftermath of cyclone George on its uranium mining operation. First, a force majeure was declared by ERA on its sales contracts as a result of the flooding. Second and more importantly, its first quarter production is estimated to be between 20-30% lower than last year, with second quarter impact still yet to be assessed. James Finch of Stockinterview.com penned an article suggesting that the impact of the Ranger mine flooding could be the reduction of 4% of 2006 worldwide uranium production, a figure that simply cannot be made up by new production this year.

Indeed, Tradetech’s March 9th report raised the uranium spot price from $85 to $90US/lb in part due to ERA’s surprise announcement. It seems that the psychological $100/lb of uranium oxide will be broken sooner than expected, although analysts have already been revising their uranium estimates upwards.

Thus, as long as the broader markets remain stable, uranium stocks, especially newly-minted and near-term producers with unhedged uranium sales contracts will likely see short-term appreciation: this list includes sxr Uranium One and Urasia Energy, two uranium juniors who will merge together shortly, as well as Paladin Resources and Denison Mines; Denison, itself a recently-merged company from International Uranium Corporation and Denison Mines, is in the process of applying for an AMEX listing in hopes of attracting some of the nascent American investor interest in uranium stocks.

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