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As I said in the OP it was a Thai person that got done for vaping and not in any tourist area. Far from it in fact. I would like to know where you have gotten your information from that vaping isn't illegal.

I was a smoker for decades. Vaping got me off the cigs. My health improved a lot. Your claim was vaping is worse than cigarette smoking. Do you still stand by this? As for the juice there's no evidence to suggest that vape juice is more toxic than cigarette smoke. The fact of the matter it's less toxic as pointed out in my previous post. As for the 14 year old girl that died which was the trigger for this "shutdown" (smokescreen for true reason IMHO) I have my theory on this. She died of a cardiac arrest which was the cause given. Possible cause of this a massive nicotine overdose. Smoking 10 packets cigs in a day would probably be enough to kill an adult male. Children should not be vaping but adults should be free to as is the case with cigarettes. There is no hard evidence to say vapes are more deleterious to health than cigarettes indeed it's the opposite so health cannot be a legitimate basis for this "shutdown".

Show me that evidence please. NHS UK is one of many organisations that have a different view to yours. Is vaping harmful? Evidence shows that vaping is less harmful than smoking. Vaping exposes users to fewer toxins and at lower levels than smoking cigarettes. Switching to vaping reduces your exposure to toxins that can cause cancer, lung disease, and diseases of the heart and circulation like heart attack and stroke. However, vaping is not risk-free. Non-smokers and young people under 18 should not take up vaping. https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/ready-to-quit-smoking/vaping-to-quit-smoking/#:~:text=Evidence shows that vaping is,like heart attack and stroke. And then there's this: The most relevant question for smokers is whether vaping nicotine is less harmful than smoking the cigarettes it is designed to replace. The evidence suggests it is far less harmful. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report2 found substantial evidence that “exposure to potentially toxic substances from e-cigarettes is significantly lower compared with combustible tobacco cigarettes” and “reduced short-term adverse health outcomes in several organ systems.”2 Most of the research on the harms of e-cigarettes is from in vitro and animal studies. How these findings translate to health effects in humans is uncertain, when many human studies show substantial health improvements in smokers who switch to vaping. https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(20)30754-6/fulltext

or one year in jail. One year in jail for vaping. Insane. As for 12-14k my thought on this is that 10k is the official fine an the extra 2-4k being extorted in Phuket is going into pockets. Having said this this particular income stream must be running out as vapes are now impossible to get.

Please post any one of my "pedantic" posts. You obviously know what pedantic means so go right ahead. BTW this isn't a pedantic post.

Beat me to it. Just propaganda meant for those with no brains. MNM is also very adept at this.

Fairly sure they did a couple of days ago.

@Robert_Smith One thing I don't consider myself as is a narcissist.

A friend of a friend (Thai) got busted at 4:00 am outside of where he works having a puff. Fine Bt10,000 or one year in jail. This is insanity on steroids. The entire vape scene has been shut down. Lots of very unhappy people. Is this shutdown, no longer a crackdown, about protecting the tobacco monopoly and not about health?

The use AI should be declared on all digital platforms including media.

Ridiculous. He died because of complications due to morbid obesity. This could have been avoided but instead he decided to go down the insane body positivity road for clicks on TikTok encouraged by an equally insane woke agenda. Morbid obesity is a treatable condition.

Weights and walking. Weights: Carrying a carton of beer. Walking: Walking to the fridge to get aforementioned beer.

Two points. One: Imported wine thanks to outrageous taxes which were meant to be removed is way too expensive. Two: Thai wine is sh!t.

A victim of wokeness in this case body positivity.

A stalling tactic. Let's see what happens after the Kursk salient has completely collapsed.

One is Champaign the other isn't. Which is which? The fact of the matter is Champagne is a region and the French don't won't anyone who isn't French and from that region using the word champagne on their sparkling wines. Champagne of course is a sparkling wine and sparkling wine is of course what everyone calls champagne regardless of what's on the label. It's quite mad. I had some very nice Australian champagnes back in the day. Still called champagne back then. Loved the stuff. Great with a snort of coke.

Ah! You speak sense. Boots on the ground has been and is even more now one of Ukraine's biggest problems and sending so many of the best one's into Kursk instead of bolstering their eastern front was pure madness. The killing needs to stop. Biden/Harris wanted it to continue. Hopefully Trump can stop it. There's no one else to do it.

Ah! Very funny. We are talking about war here and the waste of human lives but I guess some people just have to make the orange man joke. Pitiful. If I had superpowers to transport people anywhere you'd be going straight to the eastern front as a Ukrainian soldier. Fairly sure that would knock some sense into you. Disgusting lack of respect for those fighting on both sides. They're soldiers.

It's quite sad and I do believe that this "syndrome" will be researched, peer reviewed and found to be an actual psychological disorder. I just can't get over the child like nature of what's coming out from these idiots but it's child like with absolute hate. Very disturbing indeed.

Stupid comment. As I pointed out on another thread the devastating consequences are economic in nature not military. Above I said let's see what Trump has up his sleeve which is what all sane people are now waiting on. Those with the frothing at the mouth Trump hatred will continue to post nonsense I'm sure. Let's see what happens. This is a very, very complex situation at the highest levels of global politics.

Yes. Ukraine must admit defeat to some extent and hand over most of what's been taken. What's the alternative? Ukraine cannot win without massive amounts of military assistance that simply won't be coming it's way. Putin doesn't want all of Ukraine. This would be impossible and be Russia's next Afghanistan.

I was wrong earlier on saying it would happen and happen quickly. Putin wants and end to the war but with the Kursk salient collapsing I wouldn't be surprised that once Ukraine has lost this completely, which is coming soon, that Putin moves into the Sumy Oblast in retaliation. Apart from this it will be interesting to see what Trump has up his sleeve.

I'm not sure about the ceasefire now. It could go either way. The Kursk salient has collapsed and Putin's forces are moving west faster than ever albeit still slowly. It will be interesting to see what stick Trump can use on Putin. Putin basically has all the cards but Trump is the dealer. Zelensky is basically out of the game.

Do you think this thread is an indication that a certain syndrome exists?

Good. Do you agree that the pendulum has moved way too far to the left? IMO it's been hijacked by a minority of radical woke left ideologues. This led to the downfall of the Democrats in the US. People have woken up and are sick of it and it threatens the moderate left as a whole.