'the political will to stop smog problem?' When there's an election in the air, convoys of slow moving speaker-vans grind ordinary traffic to a standstill whilst broadcasting a political message no one can hear. The rest of the time it's just ordinary vans hired by deluded business men who think this drums up business when in fact it alienates potential customers.
There are meat broilers on every corner; most wats burn their own rubbish daily; traffic jams everywhere caused by selfish, brainless drivers; even convoys of slow-moving speaker vans holding up traffic to broadcast a message that no one will hear. I suspect lung disease kills more people annually than the totals for Covid and road traffic accidents.
Possibly it's not taught about in schools where most young mothers experience their first sexual encounter. Possibly it's more complicated to buy pills/diaphragms/IUDs requiring a doctor's consultation than sheaths easily obtained in any supermarket/chemist.
I share Jacko's misery. 20 metres away an unfortunate pet sits howling in misery whilst its owner is out working all day! That's before we get to the wider problem of dogs polluting every soi in the land (not just with noise.)
Don't tell DWP you're living in Thailand. I did & my pension has been frozen for 16 years! Worse HMRC have been taxing me as if I was on the full rate (presently 100% more than I get.)
Staggering but this is par for the course on many farang foods/beverages even stuff made under licence or repackaged here. They bang on about attracting tourists, who are the future ex-pats, yet penalise them with racist taxation.
At last I saw 2 cops handling traffic flow on Kao Noi during Rush Hour on Saturday! This is a 1st. How long will Plod keep up this New Year's Resolution to work?