Thailand has a strict policy on smoking
If I may believe the reports from the Netherlands, there has been a broadcast about Thailand four times on Saturday evening on Dutch television. Various topics were reviewed.
One of the daily newspapers, Trouw, reported that smoking in Thailand is being dealt with strictly. It has gone so far that the Thai government does not consider the restriction on the street to be enough. A law has been introduced that equates smoking in the house with a form of domestic violence, because health damage is caused to housemates. The corresponding punishment is still unclear, but according to the Thai media, it could lead to a lawsuit or even forced admission to rehab.
A particularly draconian measure because it is stated in another context that what happens behind the front door is a private matter and the government should not interfere. The new law aims to reduce the number of smokers. It is already banned in many places including restaurants, airports and on the beaches. However, how this will be tackled in a domestic circle is completely unclear, but that people will take each other into account a little more would already be a benefit. An advantage of this country is that most people live outdoors.
It is remarkable that although the e-cigarette was already banned in 2014 and even possession of it can lead to a hefty fine, the e-cigarette is becoming increasingly popular among young people. I even saw a boy without a helmet smoking an e-cigarette on a motorbike in one of the suburbs of Bangkok.
Ultimately, the Thai government aims to have at least thirty percent fewer smokers by 2025.
That other form of 'smoking', the inevitable inhalation of dirty air due to the burning of rice fields, forests, the burning of dirt, etc. in the open air, old diesels emitting large soot clouds, etc.: 'fortunately' this can continue!
I thought otherwise that burning those fields was forbidden.
Measures are also taken against pollution from cars and other polluters
I didn't really notice that black smoke clouds from an exhaust are being dealt with.
I see them regularly.
Pollution along the side of the road is also never addressed, and no one cleans up the waste.
Regarding your second sentence and off-topic:
I do!
Follow my (ฝรั่งบ้า) example! 🙂
There are even some youthful Thais who consciously install something on or on their car so that they can produce these plumes of smoke all the time, I was told by a Thai.
It is forbidden, but so are street races and who cares about that.
Greetings
George
Every ban also deserves a good check that ensures that a ban is withheld, and the latter is still faltering in Thailand.
In the North, despite the fact that it is forbidden to burn fields and forests, people are still walking around with mouth masks from January, and if you look in the waiting rooms of the GPs, more and more people are having problems with their bronchi.
Apart from the fact that I do not think a smoking ban indoors, to protect non-smokers, is wrong, I do wonder who wants to check this, if on the other hand people still have so many problems with the obvious forest and field fires.
It seems like a draconian measure, but I think something like this applies in Belgium if people smoke in the car and there are children in it.
The measure simply protects a minor child against proven unhealthy behavior of a minor.
Of course there are thousands of other things that are not good for a child, but doing nothing at all is certainly not the solution.
A government that knows that a cost-consuming and often poorer aging population is coming must ensure that a healthy working group arrives.
Must of course be “protected against unhealthy behavior of an adult”
Thailand can still make so many laws, if the police do not enforce it, it is all pointless. Here in Pattaya I know of several restaurants where the ashtray is openly on the table. Perhaps they lubricate the boys in brown (and they are only too happy to be lubricated because the big house and cool car have to be paid for somehow, don't they?).
from a WHO report:
“Half of smokers, mostly in rural areas, use roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco produced locally by small
businesses, a segment of the market that remains largely fragmented and unregulated. The other half
smoke cigarettes mainly produced by the government-owned Thailand Tobacco Monopoly (TTM), which
controls about 75% of the market for manufactured cigarettes.”
As long as the government earns money from smoking, and apparently from the number of sick and dead from smoking and second-hand smoke, one must be so hypocritical.
Hypocrisy is, by definition, the policy of every government worldwide.
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Yes, sometimes the articles that the government is going to “address” are an outright tourist killer.
Ok, not in restaurants, but on the street, without having to sit in those glass cells, I find it a complete mockery as I said a tourist killer.
First start with beds-umbrellas on the beach on Wednesday and order further misery.
So skin cancer from the sun here is not dangerous at all, hence the ban.
Also the people who earn their living by offering tourists either food or other items to sell, or when with the above prohibition it is not necessary to go to the beach at all to sell something.
Women all have children, so how does she get food???
I also know that there are people who gave up smoking ages ago who react very exaggeratedly when someone wants to light a cigarette.
I stopped smoking 7 or 8 years ago, but in our house there are still several ashtrays for those who want to smoke.
My husband only smokes cigars, the big ones with plumes, (like you Gringo, also from Holland) but since I quit he smokes less.
It still smells great and sometimes I take a drag and inhale it all the way to the soles of my shoes.
Look, just because I quit doesn't mean everyone around me does too.
But every time I read a coming law, an idea to make it into a law and then tightly opposing things that INCREASE TOURISM.
Living here almost 13 years, coming here in Thailand for almost 40 years.
iI have never seen so many shops, shophouses empty as at the beginning of last year and what if an oil slick spreads.
And then have the guts that Thailand is doing so well, while many people are starving because of all this dogma.
The headman of the FFP is convicted as he still had shares in a lot and was therefore found guilty, but the man who possessed the superlative of this charge………
LOUISE
who had it to a greater extent, but had better boyfriends
Dear Louise,
The hunger for yawning reminds me of Ethiopia in the 80s.
Where can I find the people on the yawn hunger in Thailand? A Thai will never ever die of hunger.
Indeed, smoking should be banned wherever it can harm others.
For example: children in your home.
In order to 'justify' smoking behaviour, other factors are usually added, such as air pollution, exhaust fumes, etc…
That's lame and irrelevant.
Want to smoke yourself to death early? Go ahead, but make sure your exhalations don't have to be inhaled by others.
It's that simple.
Very simple indeed. As long as you don't harm anyone else with it, those anti-smokers should keep their mouths shut. Children are not allowed in my house. My wife also smokes. Laws or not, I smoke in my house. Point.
Good thing the first Adam never smoked, or we wouldn't be sitting here e-mailing.
A hypocritical thing and nothing else and this is also the case with other countries.. That they make a law similar to that of drugs and prohibit the production and sale.
Lionel.
Just back from 4 weeks in Thailand: I haven't seen a non-smoking restaurant yet.
I am a non-smoker and have actually experienced the burdens of other smokers all my life… at home, my father, who turned 90 in mid-November, still smokes as much as he did 70 years ago. He is one of the people who might have already died if he had stopped smoking.
I visited him every day for almost 10 days in those days and I started to develop a smoker's cough myself. Fortunately, that is now over, now that I breathe in the much cleaner air again (I live between Hua Hin and Pranburi, so little air pollution and I often visit Pak Nam Pran, where you can also breathe a wonderfully soft air).
When I went to eat at a food court with my wife yesterday, we were again confronted with cigarette smell during dinner. It is not forbidden there, but what can you do? It's not pleasant.
What also often bothers me are the cigarettes themselves. When I still lived in the Netherlands I badly burned my foot in a public swimming pool on a still burning stump that was carelessly thrown away.
Last year our house was in danger because a huge fire started opposite us, probably from a discarded cigarette.
I will not forbid anyone to smoke, but I would be happy if these people would take more account of the damage they not only cause to themselves, but to the people around them.
Laughable. Talk doesn't fill any holes, but oh well it sounds nice and some people can sleep better now maybe by saying that they try... haha .. The law will never be complied with and is therefore pointless like so many laws in Thailand. That they will first tackle the pesticides since we are at the top of the list here in Thailand with polluted food worldwide.. Smoking is a choice.. Not eating. .. Banning smoking or equating it with drugs is also a laughable idea, which will not solve anything. The reasons and examples seem clear to me and I don't need to explain.
Efkes very clearly my thought: "Immediately, everything that has to do with smoking, smothering and puffing, IMMEDIATELY ban, abolish and make it disappear, but really EVERYTHING isn't true. Grave diggers and funeral directors will not agree with this, but there are enough DJs in the world and opportunities to earn clean and tidy money, without anyone getting sick or dying. Medicine will certainly agree with my opinion, I think!
Smokers do not want fresh air so they are banned outside.
Non-smokers want fresh air and therefore want to sit inside.
Logical right?
Why, smoking is bad for your health.
Is that really true?
https://youtu.be/ZFxwmJdwRbI
Good thing I guess. It is already banned on the beaches, but it has more to do with pollution of the beaches by cigarette butts. Areas have been created at most beaches where you can still smoke. The fine seems a bit high to me 100.000 baht for violation. I smoke myself, but never indoors when other people are in the house, show a little respect for non-smokers. Small effort to walk outside, especially in Thailand. Just come back from Thailand. Smoking is still allowed in most restaurants and bars. Smoking is still going on in the street. Naturally, much more will have to be done in Thailand to tackle smoke pollution. On that point, many things still have to change in Thailand.