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Home » Reader Submission » Smoking prohibited on Hua Hin beach (photos)
Smoking prohibited on Hua Hin beach (photos)
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Tags: Photos, Hua Hin, To smoke, Smoking ban, Beach
It's time on the beach of Hua Hin as of today no more smoking on the beach. Fine 100.000 baht and/or 1 year in prison. However, there are also corners where smoking is allowed.
Submitted by Rino
There is a ban on 24 beaches from today.
An unambiguous list of which beaches they are exactly would be useful, but they all contradict each other.
That 100.000 Baht and/or one year of imprisonment is the maximum, by the way. A lower penalty can therefore also be imposed.
If you are sentenced to a prison sentence as a notorious smoker, it may be a mitigating circumstance that smoking is still allowed in the prison. Of course you should not also be sentenced to a fine of 100.000 Bath, because then the Baths to buy your sapphie may have gone up in smoke.
The reason for this smoking ban has nothing to do with the fact that it serves the health of the smoker and his fellow human beings, but only serves to keep the beach clean.
And that in a country where every Coffee to go, 7 Eleven, Big C. Tesco and many retail stores almost kill the consumer with unnecessary free plastic packaging, which is dumped all over the country after use.
Shouldn't one start with these multis, which are actually the biggest cause of this general pollution, or are they a number too big for this government compared to tourists and other beach users?
Unfortunately, this is (was) also the case in the Netherlands. Last year, the Netherlands was in turmoil that people were no longer allowed to sell anything in plastic bags on the market. But blaming the 7-11 seems weak to me, no you don't have to have it put in a bag. I always indicate that I take it with me and that is just possible. No multi obliges you to accept the plastic.
But they have to tackle the ASO, who throw it on the street, I take a bag myself and I reuse the bags that I get with larger purchases as a garbage bag.
Perhaps this is the beginning of a step towards a cleaner environment, which is sometimes hard to find in Asia, but if you come to countries such as Japan, Korea and China (yes even there !! in Beijing, Dalian and Xian) you see nothing. down the street and take everything with you. You will only find rubbish bins at the supermarkets and at stations.
Dear Theoweert, that according to your response I only based the enormous plastic packaging problem on the 7Eleven, is of course not true if you read my response carefully.
In order not to prolong the story, I have clearly mentioned a few big names, and have not forgotten the middle class.
That no multi obliges me/and others to accept plastic packaging is actually not the problem.
The problem, however, is that hardly anyone feels obliged to provide an alternative with this system, so that the majority of customers simply continue to accept this often superfluous plastic packaging.
Just like you, I also indicate that I don't want plastic, and even go so far as to bring my own fabric bags.
Only the wrong system, which can only be changed by legislation, makes us a very small minority, which is so unique that Thailand's nature is drowning in plastic mountains in many places. That's not just being slack about the 7 Eleven, if you call it, but a nationwide pollution problem in itself, dwarfing a few cigarette butts by comparison.
While Mr. Prayuth and friends make an essence of this, I was just overtaken by a plume of soot swaying bus. At the traffic light I saw the driver practically dozing off and servicing the injectors, bobinyjang. I'd rather breathe along with a cigar or cigarette on a beach than those soot particles that are just thrown around. I don't have any souped-up pick-ups at the moment…..streets black from the 'blast'.
You have to start somewhere... if you ban smoking on beaches, the cause of this pollution has already been removed. Should you start with the other plastic rubbish, should it also be forbidden to eat and drink on the beach… I think this would be going a bit too far.
Twice in my life I have had burn blisters from discarded cigarette butts in public swimming pools in the Netherlands.
I also find it terribly difficult when I'm sitting somewhere in the fresh air and 5 meters away someone lights a cigarette and the smoke floats towards me.
Indeed, there are worse things and a car that emits black diesel smoke clouds, which I have to breathe, is also not right…
I personally am happy with this beginning…. now an obligation to clean up your mess when you leave the beach and also put a hefty fine on it if you don't. Might work well, if they then oblige the person in question to keep the beach clean for a whole week…
Completely agree Jack. It's a small start, hopefully the way to tackling more environmental / odor nuisance. 🙂
Dear Sjaak S, Provided I am not a smoker myself, and just like you prefer to sit in the fresh air, only the absurd thing about this new smoking ban is that it is therefore not possible at all.
With this ban, the government is only concerned with keeping the beaches clean, which is of course a good thing in principle, albeit not so one-sidedly intended only for smoking.
A general ban on dumping, whether it concerns butts or other waste, would certainly have been more effective here.
Personally, I consider it very exaggerated that one should therefore also prohibit eating on a beach, as theorized in his response.
The latter would mean that the previous generations, who did not yet know plastic, starved on the beach.
Leaving our nature clean should be the most normal thing, and this certainly doesn't just include throwing away a butt.
Many are concerned about one of the much larger polluters, and that is unmistakably the packaging industry, which, with their many free, and superfluous bags, cups, bottles, dishes, find their place in nature after use without thinking.
If my wife (Thai) lives in Europe and has to pay for a plastic bag in the supermarket, she often suddenly no longer needs a bag, and that would also have an effect in Thailand.
As a correction, with the ban on eating, I naturally responded to Sjaak's reaction, and not to that of teoweert. Sorry about this.
Obligate, prohibit, fine and punish.
What great ideas everyone.
In the old days, the municipalities simply put up a pole in busy places with a sign that read “Don't leave it as a thank you…” and then you really forgot to leave a piece of chewing gum behind.
Nowadays, in the tourist areas, a sweeper just comes by every few hours to sweep the street clean. Usually one man walks in front of the car to throw the waste that has still been mistakenly dumped into waste bins by notorious environmental freaks on the street, so that it can be easily swept up.
Neatly arranged for 250 million euros per year.
Maybe we can gift some of those old plates to Thailand.