{"id":3509,"date":"2015-09-26T23:18:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T23:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2015-09-26T23:18:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T23:18:57","slug":"asian-casino-mecca-macau-seriously-considering-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"Asian casino mecca Macau seriously considering smoking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a bit of a surprise. Macau, a huge casino and gaming resort city in Southern China near Hong Kong, is apparently seriously considering a total smoking ban<\/a> in its casinos.<\/p>\n

Surprise because the People’s Republic of China isn’t big on environmental or health regulations.<\/p>\n

According to a study done by the local government, casino revenue, which has already been dropping the last few years, would be cut by about 4.6 percent if the ban was implemented. The study concludes that about 23 percent of the people who visit Macau are smokers and about\u00a030 percent to\u00a050 percent like to smoke while they are gambling.<\/p>\n

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Remember this scene from “Skyfall”? That’s Macau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SSM (A Chinese Health Agency) Director Lei Chin Ion made these estimates based on the assumption that 20 percent of the smokers who travel to Macau to gamble would go elsewhere if they couldn’t smoke.<\/p>\n

According to this Macau\u00a0News, smoking is already banned in mass gaming areas, but smoking lounges are allowed in casinos. A law being proposed would ban smoking on all casinos premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a bit of a surprise. Macau, a huge casino and gaming resort city in Southern China near Hong Kong, is apparently seriously considering a total smoking ban in its casinos. Surprise because the People’s Republic of China isn’t big on environmental or health regulations. 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