The Kansas City Star is reporting the Kansas Speedway will ban smoking in the grandstands and all enclosed areas of the complex beginning in 2010.

The policy, however, will not be enforced at the planned Hard Rock Casino & Hotel expected to open on the Speedway grounds sometime next year, with a hotel and other non-gambling amenities expected to start opening by late 2010.

“This has no effect on the casino,” Joe Weinberg, Cordish Co. principal and president of Kansas Entertainment Investors LLC partnership that will own the casino.

“We will allow smoking in the casino” and throughout most of the proposed hotel’s 300 rooms, said Weinberg.