As of the beginning of this year, Macau has had a stringent no-smoking policy that particularly impacted the city’s gambling venues. Despite having more than a year to prepare for the full ban to be implemented, however, it appears that certain casinos are still not onboard and continue to try to circumvent the restrictions.

According to a report released by Macau’s Health Bureau this past Tuesday, casinos are the biggest source of rule violations on the ban through May 31. It added that its personnel had conducted 724 visits of gaming floors across the city in the five-month period, along with representatives from the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ, for its Portuguese acronym), and found 666 instances of violations, representing 26.5% of all the violations in the city. All of the casinos involved received some type of admonishment for their inability to play by the rules.

Just in May, SJM Holdings-promoted Grand Lisboa was especially good at breaking the rules, earning a “black spot” moniker for the violations.

Across Macau, there are 47 active gaming facilities and many have multiple gaming floors or areas, including dedicated VIP spaces that are segregated from the main gaming areas. Only the VIP spaces were allowed to offer a smoker’s environment until December 31, when Macau’s full ban came into effect. All of the gaming venues were forced to update their facilities to include separate, enclosed smoking lounges that included advanced smoke-extraction systems, and all of the lounges had to be approved by city regulators. Despite having all of 2018 to make preparations, a handful of venues never fulfilled their responsibilities regarding the lounges.