Cha-am beach still littered with cigarette butts after smoking ban is imposed

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Cha-am beach still littered with cigarette butts after smoking ban is imposed

By Thai PBS

 

 

Cigarette butts are still littering the beach at Cha-am but lesser than previously, officials of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources said.

 

The survey of Cha-am beach was conducted during October 16-17 after a pilot project of smoking ban was first introduced here before the planned inposition of smoking ban on 20 beaches next month.

 

From the two-day inspection of the Cha-am beach in Phetburi province, cigarette butts could still be found on the beach, but dropped by 0.62 butt in a square metre of space.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/cha-beach-still-littered-cigarette-butts-smoking-ban-imposed/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-10-18

 

[jaiyen]

Have those guys really have nothing better to do ???  Pathetic way to work out that fag ends are litter

[joecoolfrog]

I am stunned !

[lonewolf99]

I suspect people have been smoking on the beaches of Thailand for well over 60 years.....or more.?

The dog ends are not going to disappear overnight because they have banned smoking.

 

Until they get proper beach sand cleaning machines there is going be to all manner of rubbish imbedded in the sand...look at Pukhet - they found a "Torpedo" that was "a hundred years old".....is there an imogi for tongue in cheek ?

[dinsdale]

It's pretty simple really. Put your butts in something. Don't litter. EASY. Wonder how many used condoms they found?

[yellowboat]

Maybe people are there puffing away at night.  Is the ban enforced 24 hours a day and during the rain ? 

[Moti24]

"Cha-am beach still littered with cigarette butts after smoking ban is imposed"

It would be if they weren't removed in the first place!  They're not filming a Frank Spencer sketch, are they!

 

[RichardColeman]

To be honest, I'd rather step on a soggy fag end than a broken bottle, but you can still bring glass bottles on the beaches !

[HooHaa]

they make tractors that could filter the sand. its not rocket science that if you dont clean it, it doesnt get clean.

[observer90210]

Time to make an investigation on how many butts were from locals and how many from farangs!!.

 

Looks like some juicy hefty fines are on their way, against tourists and expats.

[wirat69]

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

Maybe people are there puffing away at night.  Is the ban enforced 24 hours a day and during the rain ? 

Nah, it is the fish that smoke the fags!!!!

[wirat69]

Of course, the easy answer would be to stop making filtered cigarettes!!

[Juan B Tong]

Just field strip your cigarettes.

 

Any questions?

 

 

[helloagain]

4 hours ago, joecoolfrog said:

I am stunned !

There will still be butts if ob bor tor dont pick them up. I dont smoke

[roo860]

It's pretty simple really. Put your butts in something. Don't litter. EASY. Wonder how many used condoms they found?

Condoms and butts, that's a beach to stay away from!!
[emoji30]

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[SpicyMeatball]

Cha am beaches are littered with far more environmentally dangerous pollutants worse than cigarette butts! I have been there several times & each time I am picking up plastic!! If you go, I suggest you take a rake, shovel & large garbage bags. Do your bit to clean up & set an example for these half wits!

Do Thais not understand that plastic does not decompose? <deleted> are they teaching in schools, on TV, at the temples??

Worst fricken polluters I have ever come across!

[joecoolfrog]

58 minutes ago, helloagain said:

There will still be butts if ob bor tor dont pick them up. I dont smoke

Yes exactly!

I am stunned that they consider this ridiculous exercise to be anything other than a comic sketch.

[Psychic]

Every Wednesday they close the seating areas to clean up the beach.

 

It seems to have gotten very bad in the last few days.

 

No, they don't clean it. And you could count the number of foreigners on the beach recently on one hand.

 

When they do come they usually sit on the rental seats and the renters are usually pretty good about giving you a container to put your garbage and butts in.

 

But on Mondays after the weekend "mat" parties there is bottles, plastic, food containers etc.

 

If they are going to actually have police on the beach just start fining people who leave their trash and walk away.

 

There is no need to get all heavy handed on what you can do. But there needs to be a sense of responsibility instilled. Come, enjoy and then clean up your mess.

[HerbalEd]

10 hours ago, Juan B Tong said:

Just field strip your cigarettes.

 

Any questions?

 

 

Yeah, I have a question: What about the filters? 

[Sydebolle]

Am I the only one who considers reports like

quote
From the two-day inspection of the Cha-am beach in Phetburi province, cigarette butts could still be found on the beach, but dropped by 0.62 butt in a square metre of space.
unquote

not only hilariously funny but utterly ridiculous under the consideration, that this can be read worldwide and that, among the least of Thailand's problems, cigarette buds might be ranking?  

This, matched with the sunbathing tourist between piles of garbage on Jomtien, is both considered Thailand and Hua Hin featured tons of dead fish stenching during the day at the "pristine" beaches. Just saying ......... 

[inThailand]

This beach is 95%+ a Thai beach. Not many falangs.

I guess thats why no report on fining them?

[sn1per]

a couple of strategically placed fines and they could buy a few of these...... http://www.beachcleaner.com/

[SpicyMeatball]

1 hour ago, Gunnar Horpestad said:

This is so pathetic as it can be.
Thailand, you are making a foul out of yourself.
The world is laughing big time 
 

It's gonna become that way more & more when all this nonsensical banning this & that bs gets out to the international media. 

[Krataiboy]

Yeah, but. . . 

 

I am not a smoker but I sympathise with anyone who is and fancies a day out on the beach with the wife/husband and kids. Nicotine is as addictive of heroin and to expect cigarette addicts to sweat it out for hours desperate for a drag is as sadistic as it is unnecessary.

 

A more sensible solution would be to allow smoking, but insist on smokers taking their dog-ends home with them. All they would need to do was arm themselves with a small tin half full of sand in which to extinguish and temporarily store the ecologically unfriendly butts.

 

This crazy cigarette ban follows other equally ludicrous clamp-downs on a whole range of amenities - everything from deckchairs and umbrellas to food and drink - at some of the most popular beaches Thailand has to offer.

 

Now they are talking about adding insult to injury and outlawing alcohol as well. No wonder tourists are voting with their feet and booking holidays elsewhere. Who can blame them?

 

 

[inThailand]

What are Thai's saying about the ban?

About the huge fine?

[Just Weird]

On 10/18/2017 at 4:36 PM, RichardColeman said:

To be honest, I'd rather step on a soggy fag end than a broken bottle, but you can still bring glass bottles on the beaches !

There's no law against bringing cigarettes to the beach but leaving broken bottles on the beach is an offence.