Macau’s Health Bureau says it gave permission during September for 23 new-style smoking lounges in Macau’s gaming venues, to that date there was an aggregate of 606 new-style smoking lounges in the total of 33 gambling venues in the city with permission to have them, that means 18 smoking lounges per casino venue in Macau.
The Health Bureau had received requests for an aggregate of 650 smoking lounges from 34 gambling venues in Macau. There are currently 45 gambling venues in operation in the city, including five standalone slot parlours.
Many of the venues have either multiple gambling floors or multiple gambling areas, including VIP zones often physically separate from the main gambling facilities.
However, the Health Bureau conducted 994 joint patrols of Macau gaming floors with officials from the city’s casino regulator in the first nine months of 2019, up 51.3 percent year-on-year. Such inspections had resulted in 1.079 instances of alleged smoking rule violations being identified and acted upon, down 14.5 percent from the prior-year period.
Those incidents accounted for 25.9 percent of public smoking infractions citywide in the first nine months of 2019. Casinos were the biggest single source of Macau’s reported smoking rule violations so far this year, according to the bureau.
In September alone, the City of Dreams’ casino, operated by Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd, and the casino at Venetian Macao run by Sands China Ltd, were identified as “black spots” for alleged smoking rule violations.
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