Company: CZR
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-093716
Chunk: 87

Company: Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 87
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 competitive casino markets, smokefree casinos, for the first time, generated more revenue: “Data from multiple jurisdictions clearly indicates that banning smoking no longer causes a dramatic drop in gaming revenue. In fact, non-smokingproperties appear to be performing better than their counterparts that continue to allow smoking.” 3 There are potential business risks to allowing indoor smoking in Caesars Entertainment properties: higher employee health insurance premiums (when compared with casinos that don’t permit indoor smoking); greater maintenance costs; loss of a significant number of potential visitors who won’t visit a casino due exposure to secondhand smoke. A recent Gallup survey found the rate of adult cigarette smoking to be 11%, the lowest in 80 years. 4 Shareholders have no guidance as to the costs our Company is bearing for continuing to allow indoor smoking. The Company has not disclosed the social and environmental costs and risks imposed on its stakeholders.

| 1 | https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.him |

| 2 | https://www.ashrae.org/file%20library/about/position%20documents/pd_environmental-tobacco-smoke-2020-07-1.pdf |

| 3 | https://8b3e0552-f01a-40e0-b077-ea4813c4af0b.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b3e05_348baee6d05949ad9b4adae2b7a77105.pdf |

| 4 | https://news.gallup.com/poll/648521/cigarette-smoking-rate-ties-year-low.aspx |

| 68 |     | 2025 PROXY STATEMENT |

Parx Casino’s Chief Marketing Officer told the Play Pennsylvania website in February 2023 that since the casino went smokefree, Parx has seen a positive effect on the health and morale of employees, with no increase in health insurance premiums: “Frankly, we are starting to see health costs go down....What’s been interesting to me, is a lot of our smoking guests have actually said things like, ‘I never realized how smoky and annoying it was. I really don’t mind walking 50 feet out to the smoking patio.” 5 Speaking at a recent industry conference, a senior official of Foxwoods, the nation’s largest resort casino which has been smoke-free since reopening after the pandemic, said that Foxwoods’ surveys found strong support for ending