RWJF总裁兼首席执行官理查德·贝瑟博士的证词
新泽西的无烟赌场

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) President and CEO Richard Besser, MD, to the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee.

Good afternoon and thank you for holding this hearing and for inviting me to testify.

My name is Dr. Rich Besser, and I am the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. RWJF is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of everyone in the nation, and we have a special focus on New Jersey our home state. Our New Jersey work promotes policies, practices, and systems changes to advance health equity and build a Culture of Health.

The Foundation is proud to be based in New Jersey and we applaud the progress New Jersey has made in improving health for many in our home state. Ensuring that everyone in our state has a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible includes making sure casino workers can go to work and support their families without getting sick from tobacco smoke. But there are still persistent gaps in health across the state, especially secondhand smoke exposure that roughly 20,000 New Jerseyans working in Atlantic City casinos and many visitors face every day. The compelling stories we’ve heard today resonate with me as a physician who has seen firsthand the devastating impact of secondhand smoke.

We all value workplaces where we can work without risking our health. An American Gaming Association report has noted that the casino industry employs a more diverse workforce than most other industries in America—forty-five percent of the gaming workforce is composed of people of color; 50 percent are women. For these historically marginalized individuals, the casino smoking loophole in New Jersey represents a structural barrier to health and wellbeing.

Passing S264 would make a meaningful difference in the lives of our fellow New Jerseyans, especially for the thousands of table games dealers who disproportionately suffer from the current policy. We strongly support this legislation and urge swift passage.

Thank you.

 

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下列听证会证词由罗伯特伍德约翰逊基金会(RWJF)总裁兼首席执行官Richard Besser，医学博士新泽西州参议院卫生、公共服务和老年公民委员会。

下午好，感谢你们举行这次听证会并邀请我作证。

我是Rich Besser博士，是Robert Wood Johnson基金会的首席执行官。RWJF致力于改善全国每个人的健康和福祉，我们特别关注我们的家乡新泽西州。我们在新泽西州的工作促进政策、实践和系统变革，以促进卫生公平和建立卫生文化。

基金会以新泽西州为基地而自豪，我们为新泽西州在改善我们家乡许多人的健康方面所取得的进展而喝彩。确保我们州的每个人都有公平和公正的机会过上最健康的生活，包括确保赌场工作人员能够上班并养家糊口，而不会因吸烟而生病。但整个州的健康状况仍存在持续的差距，尤其是二手烟暴露，大约2万名在大西洋城赌场工作的新泽西州人和许多游客每天都要面对二手烟暴露。作为一名亲眼目睹二手烟毁灭性影响的医生，我们今天听到的这些引人注目的故事与我产生了共鸣。

我们都珍视工作场所，在那里我们可以在不冒健康风险的情况下工作。美国游戏协会报告他注意到，与美国大多数其他行业相比，博彩业雇佣的劳动力更加多样化——45%的博彩业劳动力由有色人种组成;其中50%是女性。对于这些历史上被边缘化的人来说，新泽西州赌场吸烟的漏洞代表了健康和幸福的结构性障碍。

通过S264法案将对我们新泽西同胞的生活产生有意义的影响，特别是对成千上万的桌上游戏经销商来说，他们在当前的政策中遭受了极大的痛苦。我们强烈支持这项立法，并敦促迅速通过。

谢谢你！