Since then, the resort. Looks like they JUST started allowing SMOKING within the Digapit area of the casino. I will see if there is any othet area in the casino. The Revel Casino Resort opened to guests on April 2, as the first % smokefree indoors and outside gaming resort in Atlantic City. Revel emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week. . Revel Casino, which opened as the first smokefree casino in Atlantic City in May , is restructuring under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing after less than. The move to allow smoking was part of the casino's rebranding effort. ATLANTIC CITY — State lawmakers are considering moving on legislation to end smoking in the resort's casinos during their lame-duck session. As promised since plans were unveiled in , Revel will ban smoking on the entire casino floor, in guest rooms and in virtually all indoor and outdoor areas. A measure that would prohibit smoking in Atlantic City's casinos moved forward Monday after three years of going nowhere, heartening casino. A separate Atlantic City ordinance limits smoking to 25 percent of gaming floors and requires that area to be enclosed, but the local measure.