Inspectors fined 15 people for smoking at bus stops in the first seven days since the toughened version of Macau’s anti-smoking law took effect on New Year’s Day, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.
The Legislative Assembly (AL) passed the government-initiated Tobacco Prevention and Control Law’s amendment bill during a plenary session in July last year.The new version of the law bans smoking within a 10-metre-area of all bus stops and taxi ranks.
A bus stops at a bus stop where the no-smoking area is indicated by hardly visible grey lines on the ground, outside Flower City Garden in Taipa last week. Photo: Tony Wong
