Madrid’s mega-casino dilemma

From The Christian Science Monitor In an economy racked by widespread unemployment, is the opportunity to create tens of thousands of jobs worth granting an exception on Spain‘s two-year-old strict anti-smoking legislation? That’s the question currently facing Spain’s government, as it considers meeting American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s condition to invest billions in a proposed massive casino complex, dubbed “EuroVegas,” in the outskirts of Madrid. In line with most European legislation, smoking has been forbidden indoors in Spain since 2011, when after years of pressure from health officials and civil society groups, Parliament overwhelmingly approved the ban. Research suggests smoking…