Mount Airy Casino Resort stood out months ago as one of few casinos in Pennsylvania to ban indoor smoking, but a state hearing last week for its periodic licensing renewal made clear that’s no longer the case.

Casino officials confirmed at the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board public hearing in Monroe County that smoking is again permitted in designated areas on up to half of the gaming floor. That is the case in nearly all of Pennsylvania’s 16 casinos under an exemption for them carved out in the state’s indoor smoking law, but it was not true at Mount Airy in late 2021 and early 2022.