Macau’s Health Bureau has released details of a proposed smoking ban scheduled to take effect on the public gaming floors of the territory’s casinos on October 6.
The bureau said there will be no limitations on the size and amount of the enclosed, airport-style smoking rooms, which will not include any table games or slot machines, other than they may not exceed half the size of a total casino gaming area. This means casinos can manage a portion of smoking space on their mass and VIP floors.
It will be up to the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau to define mass floors and VIP rooms for the purposes of the ban, but the bureau said the designs of the smoking rooms submitted by the six operators to date seem “reasonable”.
