Members of the Macau Gaming Enterprises Staff Association (MGESA) yesterday submitted a petition to the Health Bureau (SSM) to voice various complaints by casino workers about gamblers smoking in casinos, addressed to SSM Director Lei Chin Ion, urging the bureau to consider stationing anti-smoking inspectors all the time in the city’s major casinos.

The association is an affiliate of the influential Macau Federation of Trade Unions (known as “Gung Luen” in Cantonese). 

Speaking to reporters after handing the petition to an SSM official outside the bureau, Kelvin Choi Kam Fu, the association’s secretary general, said that even though smoking is banned in mass-market areas in casinos, some staff members have complained that euphemistically termed “multi-function rooms” have been set up where gamblers are illegally allowed to smoke.

Members of the Macau Gambling Enterprises Staff Association (MGESA) including its secretary general Kelvin Choi Kam Fu (second from right) hand their petition to a Health Bureau (SSM) official (second from left) outside the bureau yesterday. Photo: MPDG

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