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Home » News from Thailand » Smoking ban on 24 beaches in 15 provinces
Smoking ban on 24 beaches in 15 provinces
Since November 1, smoking has been banned on 24 beaches in 15 provinces, including Hua Hin beach, Phuket and parts of the beach on Koh Tao and Koh Samui. Violation carries a maximum prison sentence of 1 year and/or a fine of 100.000 baht.
Violators will not be penalized for the next three months, but will receive a warning, the Ministry of the Environment said. When the ban takes effect, it will also be applied to other beaches.
The main reason for the ban is the pollution caused by butts left on the beach. Smoking cabins are placed on a number of beaches where inveterate smokers can go.
The initiators do not think that the smoking ban will have a negative impact on tourism.
Source: Bangkok Post
The negative consequences have already started with the banning of beds and umbrellas.
These consequences will only be greatly expanded with this smoking ban.
On holiday with friends and parents, including 1 man who couldn't smoke on the plane and couldn't stand it.
I would have loved to open the door for him up there.
My goodness, not to enjoy to the point of being rude.
And the creators of this ridiculous idea are under the delusion that this will not cost Thailand anything???
LOUISE
Will be fine. Thai beaches are generally not that wide, so you'll be smoking on the street/sidewalk/boulevard. I already did this because I think people should be able to enjoy the sea air and/or food instead of my smoke.
Also, I don't understand your comparison between the beach and plane? On the beach, your acquaintance has the opportunity to smoke a few meters away. Not on the plane. On the beach, therefore, he will keep his mood by walking 5/10 meters to the street.
Same thing that happens in Dutch pubs and cafes, walking to the smokehouse or outside (the street). Nothing more nothing less.
Will we still stay in shape too 😉
And for the thinkers, yes those few meters on the beach are really useful as the wind usually blows onto the land and my smoke usually goes with it across the street.
Think a cleaner beach and fresh sea air would do much better for tourism than smoking as it is now (and I smoke a 10-15 cigarettes a day)
MVG
How many cafes and bars have already closed after the smoking ban?
Doesn't mean it's just because of the smoking ban, but it does help.
The initiators do not think that the smoking ban has negative consequences for tourism, I think this is a crooked idea! They 'll find out .
great measure, great class to do this. And the punishment is not tender. Hope it works and that Thailand stays clean of this kind of dirty butts.
I support campaigns that promote smoking cessation. It is and remains a pointless activity. This kind of action also contributes, but is probably difficult to control on so many beaches. The fine is disproportionate and what happens if the Thai or tourist is caught and cannot pay the fine. Lock them up for up to a year. I can't place it properly as it is described here. In the Netherlands we know the offenses and crimes. Less severe rules and fines apply to violations. These are minor offenses. Apparently smoking on the specific beaches is seen here as a crime and that goes much too far. The fact that most people ruin their lungs by smoking is already a punishment they impose on themselves, the Thai authority does not have to do anything for that. In the overall picture of waste control, the butts will not cause the greatest nuisance. But every little bit helps. Fortunately, there are smoking cabins for the inveterate smokers and that is to be respected, because there are many of us who never learn.
On the part of the beach where I am sitting, Dongtan beach, Jomtien, smoking is allowed. According to the caretaker, the measure would not yet apply to Pattaya.
The Bobos at the fleet show would love to light one up, I guess.
Good measure, but they also had to apply in a go go and other closed entertainment venues. If you want to smoke smoke outside.
Great smoking ban. I'll smoke my pipe somewhere else. My neighbor also spoke to me with a friendly smile…
But this has nothing to do with butts and garbage. There has long been a law in Thailand that prohibits throwing away waste, including butts, in public places. There is something like a fine of 1000 baht on which is negotiable.
Laws are not lacking at Tino, compliance and enforcement are lacking.
Tsonge, boy, what a reaction from some. Smoking a cigarette on the beach and then being labeled a pervert. Life is a bit of give and take. Sometimes behind a poorly maintained diesel driven here. Or visited a place where Thai people like to fish and sometimes looked around to see what was left behind. I'll just keep it here, measure too crazy for words, I'll just keep it at that.
Although I don't smoke myself, I think a smoking ban on a beach is a bit exaggerated.
Exaggerated, because the ban did not come into being, so many think, for health reasons, or odor nuisance, but only to do something about the general pollution.
A general prohibition against dumping dirt, cigarette butts or plastic would have been more appropriate here, and should not only be applied to the beach.
It makes no sense to lead a polluting smoker on the beach, while Thailand is sinking into waste in many places outside the beach.
Introducing the smoking ban as a means against pollution in Thailand is at most a drop in the ocean, where once again only the tourist will be the victim.
“”To do something about the general pollution””??
Then start teaching the Thai people not to throw everything behind them on the floor or across the street.
And also introduce high fines like in Singapore.
Look how clean it gets in here.
LOUISE
Louise, I completely agree with you, which is why I already indicated in my response that the pollution in Thailand goes a little further than the smoker who throws away a cigarette butt on the beach.
Only the smoking ban on the beach, which has nothing to do with a health measure, is only about keeping the beaches generally clean, while the actual cleaning should go much further than these beaches.
The biggest polluters include the plastic industry, which floods the country with plastic packaging, and a cigarette butt is the smallest problem.
The regulators strike again. More narrow rules. While most of us like that about Thailand: the philosophy of "live and let live".
I don't smoke and don't like the stench of cigarettes. But I think it should be possible to smoke in the open air. I'll go sit somewhere else then. A little tolerance makes life so much more beautiful!
Most smokers are big egoists. I find it annoying when I lie on the beach and my neighbor next to me smokes constantly (both man and woman). Said something about it and got the answer that it's a public place here and anyone can do whatever you want. So we non smokers just have to move if you are bothered by it. So if you are not a smoker then you are in the minority. I am happy if the Thai government manages to ban smoking on all Thai beaches. I think this is a dream world.
The Thai government (read the military junta) should actually start making a smoking ban everywhere. Last week I saw how many soldiers are walking around in Bangkok, they can certainly help with checking the streets. We are in favor of a tougher approach and not such a weak bite as in the Netherlands.
Dear Riesol Les,
Just a little patience and you will no longer be bothered by smoking tourists next to you, because they no longer go to Thailand.
Yes, maybe a single thai, but I don't think so.
You only have to spend the weekend elsewhere, because then the thai go to the beach en masse with 3 generations.
And boy, who smoke with a speed, the thai.
Only I hope you don't have real estate here, because no more tourists to Thailand, with the associated consequences that foreign entrepreneurs do not invest here.
Add to that the necessary “farngs” who will also look elsewhere.
Not much left, huh?
And I'm not drunk, so that gray matter still works, but after this email I'm really going to pour a sake and hope that people like you can minimize the tunnel vision a bit.
And yes, I smoked too but quit 6 years ago, but will never, ever force anyone to smoke outside our home.
Just cozy with the rest with a nut.
Live and let live, but this is a saying that many people cannot accept.
LOUISE.
You can think and say about the Thai Junta, but they have made a wise choice here. In general I am for freedom and that people should be allowed to make their own choices about what they do or don't do as long as it doesn't bother others, but you really can't say that about smoking. You see worldwide that smokers are being held to stricter laws and regulations and rightly so I think.
It is dirty and filthy and it also stinks (I am also entitled to my opinion) that smoking is not healthy that is well known and that people want to run the risk of scary diseases, they must of course also know for themselves, but there is someone else who has chosen not to bother with it and that has nothing to do with tolerance or solidarity. Let's be honest, if you still smoke in 2017, you're not really doing it wisely, you're not going to sniff asbestos anyway.