UM organizes workshop on passive smoking

The University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) recently organized a workshop to address the effects of passive smoking on public health. At the event, six renowned experts and scholars from Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau gave presentations and participated in an in-depth discussion on the topic.
Participants in the workshop included Health Bureau director Lei Chin Ion, and deputy director, Cheang Seng Ip. The Tobacco Prevention and Control Office director Tang Chi Hou was also in attendance. According to a press release issued by UM, measures implemented to control tobacco smoke were also discussed during the workshop. Prof Takefumi Yoshimura, a professor emeritus from the University of Occupational and Environmental Health in Japan, said that “dividing areas into smoking and non-smoking sections is not sufficiently effective, as research has shown that tobacco smoke can spread to non-smoking sections through the air.”