Video: Bus stops or even fishbowls - welcome to Thailand's beach smoking areas

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Video: Bus stops or even fishbowls - welcome to Thailand's beach smoking areas

 

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A Facebook video showed what the smoking areas at Thailand's beaches will look like - and no one could make up their mind if they looked like bus stops or even the infamous "fish bowls" of yesteryear.

 

Either way they could be quite useful for just keeping out of the rain if you don't mind health complications from second hand smoke.

 

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But at least sense appears to have prevailed regarding fines - 2,000 baht could be the most smokers would have to "cough up".

 

Channel 3 reported that there were to be 10 such 'booths' along the stretch of Bang Saen beach to allow smokers top have a puff without annoying others or threatening the sandy ecosystem.

 

Yesterday chief of marine and coastal resources Jatuporn Burutphat, who came up with the plan to ban smoking on Thai beaches, made a tour of inspection with a few dozen of his smiling entourage.

 

Jatuporn was panned last week when it was announced that you could go to jail for smoking on the beach. Now signage at Bang Saen at least showed that offenders would only be fined 2,000 baht.

 

Jatuporn inspected the smoking areas - fitted with extractor fans - and then spied several butts on the beach.  Cigarette butts that is.

 

Feeling vindicated after all the unwelcome criticism he showed his minions the dirty butts that doctors say.....well he never did quite finish his sentence but we are sure the butts are dangerous.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Meanwhile down in Hua Hin daily news reported that a survey done by local marine and coastal resources chief Banyarak Sermthong showed there were 100,000 butts all over the Hua Hin sands.

 

They did a survey to a depth of ten centimeters that revealed the extent of the problem.

 

Officials from the municipality were also busy preparing signage about the ban for Hua Hin and Cha-Am.

 

The signs will be in Thai, English, Chinese and even Arabic.

 

No mention was made if there was a coordinated approach to the fines

in both Hua Hin and Bang Saen or elsewhere.

 

Twenty beaches Thai-wide have been chosen to pilot the scheme that may later be expanded to all beaches in the kingdom.

 

D-Day for the new regulations is November 1st.

 

Source: CH3, Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-10-19

 

[maxpower]

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[smedly]

it's not even on the beach, so they have banned smoking off the beach as well, who makes this stuff up

 

Beach = sand

 

Instead of simply providing ashtrays and bins for people to put their waste and anyone caught littering (enforcing the law) fine them 

[Samui Bodoh]

46 minutes ago, webfact said:

Yesterday chief of marine and coastal resources Jatuporn Burutphat, who came up with the plan to ban smoking on Thai beaches, made a tour of inspection with a few dozen of his smiling entourage.

 

I am quite sure that his "entourage of a few dozen" are smiling at all the fines they are going to collect and pocket.

 

 

 

[smedly]

9 minutes ago, Samui Bodoh said:

 

I am quite sure that his "entourage of a few dozen" are smiling at all the fines they are going to collect and pocket.

 

 

 

I wonder does he realise actually realise how many people are laughing at him

 

so do these banns apply to the Islands where they hold the full moon parties - if not why not lol

 

I was at a Thai beach not far from Pattaya yesterday and they were all puffing away on the beach - I even saw a number throwing their butts into the sand

 

Yes people are going to stand in these plastic ovens that are "OFF" NOT ON THE BEACH  and smoke 

 

someone needs to take this man to one side and have a quiet word in his ear or transfer him to something more suitable like shovelling sand LMAO

[darksidedog]

Hearing that fines will be 2,000, not 100,000 and a year in jail is the only bit of common sense in this story. To expect people to stand in a greenhouse and sweat their tits off while having a ciggie is nuts. A couple of good sized ashtrays, with a "smoking area" sign would have been far more appropriate, less costly and less comical.

[fforest1]

Maybe they could also have a booth like this for anyone

who wants to drink on the beach.....A smokers booth and a drinkers booth....

[stanleycoin]

Well at least they have being stupid down pat.

Well done,  good job 

Amazing Thailand. 

 

 

[Get Real]

Great Ideas! Just makes me want to travel to a place and try this little boef out. Looks quite comfy.

[fforest1]

If they would only put a toilet in the booths then some one could use the crapper and have a smoke at the same time....

2 birds killed with one stone...

[coulson]

Welcome to Thailand. The hub of re-inventing the wheel as a square.

[silent]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

it's not even on the beach, so they have banned smoking off the beach as well, who makes this stuff up

 

Beach = sand

 

Instead of simply providing ashtrays and bins for people to put their waste and anyone caught littering (enforcing the law) fine them 

It looks like somebody's idea for tackling greenhouse gas emissions

[Oziex1]

Will they end up as shelters for taxi mafia?

Or just neglected rundown structures.

 

 

[dinsdale]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

 

But at least sense appears to have prevailed regarding fines - 2,000 baht could be the most smokers would have to "cough up".

I can just imagine standing side by side, smoking with a Thai. Bt2000 fine for me and for the Thai.....?

Edited October 19, 2017 by dinsdale

[Pilotman]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

I wonder does he realise actually realise how many people are laughing at him

 

so do these banns apply to the Islands where they hold the full moon parties - if not why not lol

 

I was at a Thai beach not far from Pattaya yesterday and they were all puffing away on the beach - I even saw a number throwing their butts into the sand

 

Yes people are going to stand in these plastic ovens that are "OFF" NOT ON THE BEACH  and smoke 

 

someone needs to take this man to one side and have a quiet word in his ear or transfer him to something more suitable like shovelling sand LMAO

He's my hero.  I would ban the practice everywhere but  in personal dungeons in your own house.  Filthy habit that others constantly  impose on non smokers and then throw way their buts thinking its not litter.  Good on Thailand, I hope it works, but I doubt it, knowing how selfish most smokers around here seem to be.   

[MaddDog]

it's hot as hell as it is in the Sun here 

can you imagine how hot those ovens are going to get mid-day with no shade?

[fforest1]

4 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

He's my hero.  I would ban the practice everywhere but  in personal dungeons in your own house.  Filthy habit that others constantly  impose on non smokers and then throw way their buts thinking its not litter.  Good on Thailand, I hope it works, but I doubt it, knowing how selfish most smokers around here seem to be.   

Why should smokers smoke in dungeons when they can smoke in just about any bar in Thailand..lol

[Cyclone88]

So they have decided to errect mini glass houses for people to smoke in. I dread to imagine the heat in one of those things let alone how filthy they will look within a few days.

 

[InMyShadow]

I think these saunas will help smokers kick the habit

[edwinchester]

I'm a lifetime non smoker and hate breathing others second hand smoke but this strikes me as one of the most retarded schemes yet. One wonders how much was raked off from the building of these white elephants?

[Destiny1990]

No smoke no chair no umbrella no food no drink ehmmm luckily still can rent jet skis.

[mark01]

2 hours ago, fforest1 said:

Maybe they could also have a booth like this for anyone

who wants to drink on the beach.....A smokers booth and a drinkers booth....

And a shagging booth....

[zzidenn]

in like 2 weeks time some nifty old lady will turn this booth into a little eatery 

[IamNoone88]

"......and no one could make up their mind if they looked like ....."

 

I know what they look like ... they like they will have all fallen down in 12 months.

Edited October 19, 2017 by IamNoone88

[overherebc]

Lots of countries already gone down this road of designated smoking areas.

Just one of these things that us smokers have to get used to. Almost every airport I've been to has them and most public areas in many countries are non-smoking areas.

Last holiday to UK cut my smoking by at least 50/60% as a guess.

Times are changing.

[davidill]

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[Katipo]

Using those things will be like standing in an oven. A really smoky oven. I almost feel sorry for the smokers. Almost. 

[Knocker33]

I don't know about looking like a goldfish bowl it will be more like a see through oven and where are the extractor fans going to blow the second hand smoke?

[Cranky]

3 minutes ago, Knocker33 said:

I don't know about looking like a goldfish bowl it will be more like a see through oven and where are the extractor fans going to blow the second hand smoke?

The real plan is to fill the goldfish bowls with birds in bikinis with numbers on so you will be able to take them for a soapy in the sea.